Northeast African Studies 16 No 1

IN THIS ISSUE From the Editor Articles Stefano Bellucci, "The 1974 Ethiopian Revolution at 40: Social, Economic, and Political Legacies" Berthold Unfried, "Friendship and Education, Coffee and Weapons: Exchanges between Socialist Ethiopia and the German Democratic Republic" Abera Yemane-ab, "'Land to the Tiller': Unrealized Agenda of the Revolution" Samuel Andreas Admasie, "Historicizing Contemporary Growth: The Ethiopian Revolution, Social-Structural Transformation, and Capitalist Development" John Markakis, "The Revolution and the Scholars" Elleni Centime Zeleke, "When Social Science Concepts Become Neutral Arbiters of Social Conflict: Reading the Ethiopian Federal Elections of 2005 through the Ethiopian Student Movement of the 1960s and 1970s" Eyob Balcha Gebremariam, Linda Herrera, "On Silencing the Next Generation: Legacies of the 1974 Ethiopian Revolution on Youth Political Engagement" Bitania Tadesse, "Revolutionary Ethiopia through the Lens of the Contemporary Film Industry" Kiflu Tadesse, "Some Thoughts about the Ethiopian Left"

IN THIS ISSUE Articles Fantahun Ayele, "The Northwestern Command's Response to Insurgent Assaults on Dabat, Ethiopia" Serge D. Elie, "Communal Identity Transformation in Soqotra: From Status Hierarchy to Ethnic Ranking" Esubalew Belay Fanta, "The British on the Ethiopian Bench: 1942-1944" A. Osman Farah, "The Justice of Improving Security and Confronting Poverty: The Role of Transnational NGOs and Communities in Somalia" Review Essay Christopher Day, "The Sudans: Macrohistory and Micropolitics" Book Reviews The Oromo and the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia 1300-1700, by Mohammed Hassen, reviewed by Ezekiel Gebissa Linguistic, Oriental and Ethiopian Studies in Memory of Paolo Marrassini, edited by Alessandro Bausi, Alessandro Gori, and Gianfrancesco Lusini, reviewed by Grover Hudson Islamic Law, Gender and Social Change in Post-Abolition Zanzibar, by Elke Stockreiter, reviewed by Nathalie Arnold Koenings In Memoriam Paulos Milkias, "Richard Pankhurst (1927-2017)"

In This Issue Articles The Exaltation of Holy Cross and the Deposition of the Emperor of Ethiopia: Ləj Iyasu a Mäsqäl Drama | Steven Kaplan Individual and Institutional Drivers of Inequality in Rural Agricultural Contexts: Evidence from Southern Ethiopia | Logan Cochrane and Alec Thornton Revisions of the Past, between Architectural and Political Form: The Memory of the Old Parliament Building in Mogadishu | Haroon Q. Mohamoud Hunter in Somaliland: Consul Frederick M. Hunter and the Creation of the British Somaliland Protectorate | James Fargher Book Reviews The Puzzle of Ethiopian Politics, by Terrence Lyons | Jan Erk Modernist Art in Ethiopia, by Elizabeth Wolde Giorgis| Dagmawi Woubshet Tales of Hope, Tastes of Bitterness: Chinese Road Builders in Ethiopia, by Miriam Driessen | Liang Chen Under Construction: Technologies of Development in Urban Ethiopia, by Daniel Mains | Aaron Tesfaye