Download or read book Survival and Modernization--Ethiopia's Enigmatic Present written by Messay Kebede and published by Red Sea Press(NJ). This book was released on 1999 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tackles the enigmatic question of Ethiopia's failure to modernise in spite of an absence of the major problems and deficiencies usually invoked to explain under-development. Combining sociological, political and philosophical analysis, it attempts to explain where things went wrong in the country's post colonial development and how instead of moving forward, the country has stagnated in the past.