Awol Ali Mohammed

Hawassa University | HU · School of Governance and Development Studies

Background This study examines the growing trend of ethnicized leadership in Ethiopian higher education institutions and advocates for a shift toward merit-based governance to improve institutional integrity and performance. Since 1991, with the introduction of ethnic federalism, leadership appointments in Ethiopian universities have increasingly b...

Background This study critically examines the dynamics of corruption within Ethiopia’s dam construction projects, focusing on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD the Gilgel Gibe series, and Genale Dawa. The research highlights how weak management practices, insufficient oversight, and centralized decision-making, resulting in contribute to in...

This scholarly article examines the intricate layers of social, economic, and political marginalisation experienced by the ‘Negede Weyto’ minority and elucidates its impacts on their psychological well-being. Employing a qualitative research approach, the study synthesised primary and secondary data sources. Primary data collection methods included...

In the realm of philosophy and philosophy of science, the East-West dichotomy has been a longstanding framework through which people ascribe cultural identities to philosophical traditions. This division delineates the cultural hemispheres, categorizing them into Eastern and Western paradigms. However, the concept of interculturality challenges the...

This article aims to explore the food security status of female-headed households and its determinant factors in Sidama Regional State, Ethiopia. To that end, the article used both quantitative and qualitative research approaches, as well as multistage sampling techniques and blending both descriptive and econometric statistics during data analysis...

This article explores the constitutional promises and practices of self-rule in Ethiopia federal system focusing on the Konso ethnic group’s quest for self-rule. Given that the federal project in Ethiopia is a new model (synthesis) that has replaced the failed ‘Nation-State’ building effort since 1991, self-rule has become the ideological heart of...

This article delves into the socioeconomic and political schemes orchestrated by the TPLF, a guerilla group that seized power in Ethiopia in 1991 following the overthrow of the Derg military government. Their conspiracy was ideologically driven and aimed at undermining the unity of Ethiopia, replacing it with a distorted vision concocted by the TPL...

This article explores structural violence over Manja minority groups of Mareka Woreda in Dawuro Zone, snnprs , because structural violence over Manja minority group in the study area has been hurting intrinsically and in a systemic way. The article mainly stresses on the forms and actors of structural violence over Manja. Thus, the study employed q...

This conference is a concise reflection on Richard Bell’s article entitled “Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-Cultural Approach to Classical and Contemporary Issues”.

In this sensitive and personal investigation into Benin's occult world, Douglas J. Falen wrestles with the challenges of encountering a reality in which magic, science, and the Vodun religion converge into a single universal force. He takes seriously his Beninese interlocutors' insistence that the indigenous phenomenon known as àze ("witchcraft") i...

For centuries, the River Nile has been treated as a source of conflict rather than cooperation. The Nile is the longest river in the world (6,825 km), its basin connecting 11 riparian countries: Ethiopia, Sudan, Egypt, South Sudan, Burundi, Eritrea, Kenya, Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda. It is very large both in terms of drainage ar...