Ethnic politics in Ethiopia and the church

Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Sociology - Religion, grade: A-, , course: Integrated, language: English, abstract: Politically, Ethiopians are currently provoked and even forced to align with

their ethnic group as opposed to Ethiopianism that promotes national

identity over ethnic identity.1 Mesfin Woldemariam discusses how this was

enforced in the 1992 election in Ethiopia. 2 This has to do with the federalism governance the country adopted since the over through of the Dergueregime. As the result of this there is a growing ethnic tension in many

places, government sectors, other organizations and churches. As Christians

of this century living in a critical defining term of history, we are in a baffling trajectory where every other turn seems grey and our ethnic identity and our view of it plays a crucial role.