Why Do Some Amhara Elites Collaborate Against Their Own People?
The Ethiopian Tribune · Reflective Essay Why Do Some Amhara Elites Collaborate Against Their Own People? Political Opportunism, Elite Co-optation,...
Girma Berhanu (Professor)
Ethiopia’s Cycle of Self-Destruction: A Crisis of ‘Collective Intelligence’?
Ethiopia’s Cycle of Self-Destruction: A Crisis of ‘Collective Intelligence’? Professor Girma Berhanu Editorial Foreword There is a particular kind of...
When Intellectualism Gives Way to Cadre Politics: A Warning to the Ethiopian Political Landscape
When Intellectualism Gives Way to Cadre Politics: A Warning to the Ethiopian Political Landscape Professor Girma Berhanu 17 September 2026...
The Hardest Question: Why Are We Destroying Our Own?
The Ethiopian Tribune Editorial Foreword There is a peculiar cruelty in watching a people turn their sharpest weapons upon themselves....
The Genetic Architecture of Adaptations to High Altitude in Ethiopia: The Amhara People as a Case Study
Editor’s Foreword The Blood That Never Thickened On Professor Girma Berhanu’s review of the genetic architecture of high-altitude adaptation in...
Collective Stupidity
The Ethiopian Tribune Editor’s Foreword & Synopsis Collective Stupidity An Intellectual Infection Consuming Ethiopia’s Educated Class Girma Berhanu (Professor) ·...
South Africa’s Anti-Immigrant Violence: Africans Targeting Africans
Editorial Foreword The Spear We Helped to Forge A foreword to Professor Girma Berhanu’s essay on South Africa’s anti-immigrant violence...
Writing Across Borders: An Autoethnography of Transnational Scholarship, Diaspora Politics, and the Amhara Struggle
Autoethnography · Diaspora Politics · The Amhara Struggle Writing Across Borders: An Autoethnography of Transnational Scholarship, Diaspora Politics, and the...
Gazing as a Weapon: Eyes That Wound
By Girma Berhanu (Professor) This reflection was prompted by a question from a 14–15-year-old girl who attends the homework support...
When Democracy Weakens: Fragile Political Cultures and Fascistic Drift
THE ETHIOPIAN TRIBUNE EDITORIAL FORWARD In the arc of modern Ethiopian politics, a pattern emerges with unsettling consistency: the language...
