AFRICOM and Studying Modern Neocolonial, Imperialist Formations

Ethiopian and Eritrean students at a protest in the 1970s against the emperor

In the light of the recent widespread conflicts throughout Ethiopia and Eritrea this past fall, I recognized that I knew next to nothing about the countries my family is from. I understood on a very surface level the rise of the TPLF (Tigray People’s Liberation Front) and EPRDF (Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front), but I didn’t know what information to trust about…