Understanding: Ethiopia with BBC's Martin Plaut

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Martin Plaut is a journalist and academic specializing in conflicts in Africa, especially the Horn of Africa. He worked as a BBC News journalist from 1984 to 2012 and is a member of Chatham House. As of 2019, Plaut was a senior research fellow at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies of the University of London.

00:00: Intro
00:44: 🌍 What makes Ethiopia unique in Africa
05:45: 🌍 Ethiopia's expansion and formation during the Scramble for Africa
11:26: 🌍 history of Eritrea's independence from Ethiopia and Italy.
16:57: 👑 Amhara and Tigray minority groups
22:26: 📺 the influence of media and cultural identity in Somalia and Ethiopia
27:30: 🇪🇹 Ethiopia's corporate world
33:11: 🌍 Ethiopia's role in the Horn of Africa
38:39: 📚 Best Sources on Ethiopia
43:31: 🌍 racism and the complexity of understanding Ethiopian culture and politics