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, a
distinguished journalist who has reported on conflicts across
Africa for decades, and whose book Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray
War was an essential resource for us in preparing our series on
Ethiopia. We discuss: Ethiopia’s recent Tigray War and why it
proved so consequential for the Horn of Africa How the federal
government — with Eritrean support — turned against the Tigray
region despite its long rule in Ethiopia Martin’s personal story of
growing up in apartheid South Africa and his early political
activism 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 has recently been published. I hope to get
Martin back onto the podcast to talk all about it! Join the
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