Tag: Post-Conflict State Building
-
Halima’s Dilemma and Eritrea’s Democratic Developmental Horizon
As my father recounted it to me in my youth, Halima’s resigned observation, ‘Halima Halima aitibelu: Halima nabra kedema,’ meaning that her life would remain the same despite all the political noise, captured a public intuition that political competition without material improvement is empty. Her remark, born in the 1940s when political parties multiplied but…