Author: Jon Temin | Journal of Democracy

Jon Temin is director of the Africa Program at Freedom House and a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He has served on the U.S. Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and as director of the Africa Program at the U.S. Institute of Peace.

July 2019, Volume 30, Issue 3

Aspirations and Realities in Africa: Ethiopia’s Quiet Revolution

Jon Temin
Yoseph Badwaza

Popular dissatisfaction and tensions within the long-ruling EPRDF have led to the rise of a young reformist leader who has begun a course of bold reversals in favor of greater freedom and openness.