Samson A. Bezabeh

Samson A. Bezabeh, an anthropologist, is currently a visiting fellow at the African Studies Center in Leiden, the Netherlands.

Islamic State’s latest victims: poor defenceless Christian Ethiopians

After all, what IS wants is to create a polarized world of Muslim vs Christians by tapping into local discontent of various sorts.

By Samson A. Bezabeh

/ 21 Apr 2015

North Africa’s new unlawful democracies

The ‘Arab revolution’ as a phenomenon backed by France and its allies is evidence of the arbitrariness of liberal democracy long ago identified by the German jurist Carl Schmitt: it is no more than rule achieved through a state of emergency.

By Samson A. Bezabeh

/ 10 Nov 2011