Conflicted Revisited: Ethiopia’s Overlooked Conflict

This week on Conflicted, we’re unlocking another episode we first released for members of the Conflicted Community.

In this interview from last January, I talk with Martin Plaut (x.com/martinplaut), a distinguished journalist who has reported on conflicts across Africa for decades, and whose book Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War (amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Ethiopias-Tigray-Ma…) was an essential resource for us in preparing our series on Ethiopia. We discuss:

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Ethiopia’s recent Tigray War and why it proved so consequential for the Horn of Africa

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How the federal government — with Eritrean support — turned against the Tigray region despite its long rule in Ethiopia

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Martin’s personal story of growing up in apartheid South Africa and his early political activism

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His current work on the history of African slavery and common misconceptions surrounding it

Speaking of slavery in Africa, Martin’s latest book Unbroken Chains: A 5,000-Year History of African Enslavement (amzn.eu/d/i6oPnCw) has recently been published. I hope to get Martin back onto the podcast to talk all about it!

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