The Quest for Socialist Utopia: The Ethiopian Student Movement, c. 1960-1974

A lively historical account of the rise of Ethiopia's student movement by one of those involved, its role in overthrowing the imperial regime, and its impact on the shaping of the country's future.



Finalist for the Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize to the author of the best book on East African Studies, 2015.

In the second half of the 1960s and the early 1970s, the Ethiopian student movement became the major oppositionforce against the imperial regime in Ethiopia, ultimately playing a fundamental ...