Finfinne Times: Law and Human Rights

The Ethiopian Renaissance Agenda and Education in Ethiopia
October 6, 2007

The struggle of a few enlightened individuals from Ethiopia who studied closely the ancient civilization of the Kush people, how it declined, and the need for Ethiopian Renaissance, it appears that it is bearing fruit and gaining momentum as Ethiopia welcomes and enters what is now dubbed the Ethiopian New Millennium. In his speech at the Millennium celebrations on September 12, 2007, Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s current Prime Minister has called for Ethiopian Renaissance. Even though the current Ethiopian government’s track record on human rights is in serious questions, the fact that the Ethiopian Renaissance Agenda is being taken up officially by the highest level of the Ethiopian government may be an indication that the importance of this agenda is being understood well. Seen against its standing constitution that was written only about a decade ago that allowed the legitimate quest for political decentralization to go up to disintegration, picking up the Ethiopian Renaissance Agenda by the Ethiopian government shows a fundamental shift from the political propensity it has shown in the recent past.