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Frank Gerber
Dr. Opoku Agyeman
POLS204 Government/Politics of Africa

When one thinks of the country of Ethiopia it would not be uncommon for one to automatically think of one of those commercials that shows the poverty and starvation among the people who live there. However, this was not always the case. In antiquity Ethiopia was a grand civilization that build grand cathedrals long before those of Europe. This civilization, like many of man’s earliest civilizations on the mother continent, has been washed away by the sands of time and the fire of the gun. Why is it that when most of us think of this once thriving civilization we think of only starvation and a government that cannot feed it’s people? What circumstances surrounded this transformation from thriving civilization to mass starvation and the third world circumstances that surround Ethiopia today? To find out why Ethiopia is the way it is today, we must briefly examine the history of this once great nation.......

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