‘Africa Rising’? ‘Africa Reeling’ May Be More Fitting Now

A protest in Bishoftu, Ethiopia, on Oct. 2. No place exposes the cracks in the narrative of Africa’s rising better than Ethiopia, which is one of the continent’s fastest-developing but most repressive nations. ASSOCIATED PRESS  By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN NAIROBI, Kenya — For decades Africa was eager for a new narrative, and in recent years it got a…