Addis Ababa’s Transformation in Repression

y AfricanArgumentsEditor By Ismail Einashe African Arguments The Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa is going through one of the fastest rates of urban growth in the world. In Amharic ‘Addis Ababa’ means ‘new flower’, and Menelik II founded the city at the end of the 19th century. For much of its history, Addis was a small town, at the…