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    • The Judiciary in Federal Systems in Africa 

      Steytler, Nico; Ayele, Zemelak (Perspectives on Federalism, 2020)
      Eight states in Africa that have federal or federal-type government systems and most of these federations emerged in the post-Cold War period. The African federations are in various degrees characterised by a limited ...
    • Local government in Ethiopia: still an apparatus of control? 

      Ayele, Zemelak (University of the Western Cape, 2011)
      Historically, local authorities in Ethiopia enjoyed wide political, administrative, judicial, and financial autonomy. However, from the 1850s a process of territorial expansion and centralisation was initiated in the ...
    • The (mis)management of ethnolinguistic diversity in Ethiopian cities 

      Ayele, Zemelak; de Visser, Jaap (Taylor & Francis, 2016)
      Ethiopia has an ethnic federal system that is based on the assumption that the ethnolinguistic communities of the country are located in neatly defined, or definable, territorial areas. On the basis of this assumption ...