Multi-ethnic Ethiopia
Jessner, Melanie
The multi-ethnic state of Ethiopia, uniting more than 80 distinct ethnic groups on its territory, is unique on the African continent, regarding that it has never been colonized by the Europeans and that it has introduced a Federal Democratic Republic in 1991 based on ethnicity. Given by the Constitution of 1994, each ethnic group has the right to self-determination up to secession. But when measuring the success of federalism and democratic pr...