Ethiopia's civil wars: Postcolonial modernity andthe violence of contested national belonging
Abstract
This article investigates the historical and structural founda-tions of the war between the northern Tigray region ofEthiopia and the federal government. It does so by employingMamdani's theoretical framework of rethinking the politics ofnational belonging. The article considers one of the centralpropositions in Mamdani's broad vision of politicaldecolonisation, that of reimagining the relationship betweennation and state in the face of violent contestations overnational belonging.