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Dr. Samuel Dermas Habtemariam

The Responsibility of Intellectuals: A Reflection on Ethiopia’s Current Political Discourse

The role of intellectuals, as Noam Chomsky reminds us, is to speak truth to power and to hold leaders accountable for their words and actions. Unfortunately, certain segments of Ethiopia’s political elite appear to have lost sight of this fundamental responsibility. Recently, Eth

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