Contested Power in Ethiopia

Kjetil Tronvoll, PhD (2003) in political anthropology from LSE, is professor of human rights at the University of Oslo and Senior Partner of the International Law and Policy Institute. He has published extensively on the Horn of Africa, and his latest monograph is War and the Politics of Identity in Ethiopia (James Currey, 2009).Tobias Hagmann, Ph.D. (2007), University of Lausanne, is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. He has published on politics in the Horn of Africa and is co-editor of Negotiating Statehood: Dynamics of Power and Domination in Africa (Wiley Blackwell, 2011).

• CONTENTSList of Maps, Photographs, Tables and Charts ......................................viiNotes on Contributors ...............................................................................ixList of Acronyms .........................................................................................xiIntroduction Traditional Authorities and Multi-Party Elections in Ethiopia ...... 1Kjetil Tronvoll & Tobias HagmannChapter 1 Electoral Politics in the Nuer Cultural Context .................31Dereje FeyissaChapter 2 Fishing for Votes in the Somali Region: Clan Elders, Bureaucrats and Party Politics in the 2005 Elections .........61Tobias HagmannChapter 3 Family Connections: Inherited Status and Parliamentary Elections in Dawro, Southern Ethiopia .....89Data Dea BarataChapter 4 A Revival of Tradition? Th e Power of Clans and Social Strata in the Wolayta Elections ....111Lovise AalenChapter 5 Cynicism and Hope: Urban Youth and Relations of Power During the 2005 Ethiopian Elections ....137Daniel MainsChapter 6 Islam and Politics: The EPRDF, the 2005 Elections and Muslim Institutions in Bale ..................165Terje ØstebøChapter 7 ‘We Say they are Neftenya; They Say we are OLF’: A Post-Election Assessment of Ethnicity, Politics and Age-Sets in Oromiya ........................193Charles SchaeferChapter 8 Customary Institutions in Contemporary Politics in Borana Zone, Oromia, Ethiopia ....................221Marco BassiChapter 9 Th e 2005 Elections in Maale: A Reassertion of Traditional Authority or the Extension of a Nascent Public Sphere? ........................................251Donald L. DonhamEpilogue The ‘New’ Ethiopia: Changing Discourses of Democracy ...................269Kjetil TronvollIndex .........................................................................................................289