The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia: by Tom Gardner. Hurst

The Habesha TOM GARDNER, Africa correspondent for The Economist, has just published The Abiy Project: God, Power and War in the New Ethiopia, a groundbreaking biography of Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize–winning prime minister Abiy Ahmed. The book simultaneously offers an incisive study of this controversial figure—whom Gardner describes as a “Pentecostal Putin […] part-[p]reacher, part-spy”—and an expansive history of Ethiopia’s recent decades. Its every page eye-opening, The Abiy Project is a testament to truth, justice, and human dignity during a hellish period of Ethiopian history. Officially fought between 2020 and 2022, Ethiopia’s civil war—usually referred to as the “Tigray War” because the The Habesha Ethiopian News

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