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International Journal of Ethiopian Studies (IJES) is an interdisciplinary, refereed journal dedicated to scholarly research relevant to or informed by the Ethiopian experience. IJES publishes two issues a year of original work in English and/or Amharic to readers around the world. “IJES will, for the first time, provide Ethiopian scholars with an Ethiopian venue for refl ecting seriously on Ethiopian issues from a scholarly perspective. As a number of philosophers have pointed out, one of the deepest obstacles to African (including Ethiopia) progress towards democracy and economic prosperity was the peculiar situation of Africans being reduced to an object of knowledge by contemporary social science and, consequently, the absence of Africans, including Ethiopians, as self-examining, self evaluating, self-defi ning, and self propelling subjects of history. As a result, we have been totally dependent on external (European and American) defi nitions, interpretations, explanations, evaluations of who we are and what our problems and their solutions are. IJES is an important step in breaking away from this objectifi cation of Ethiopia. It will provide a scholarly medium for Ethiopians to reclaim their subjectivity.” Maimire Mennasemay, Professor at Dawson College |
International Journal of Ethiopian Studies | a Tsehai Publishers Publication | ISSN:1543-4133