Ethiopia underwent a transformation in its political landscape in 1991, in which ethnicity has been formally institutionalized. Although the 'Ethiopian Experiment' of ethnicity has been in place for nearly two decades, it is still under varying degrees of academic and political controversies. While some criticize formal ethnicism as a threat to national integrity, others are concerned to incompatibilities between the rhetoric and the practice. This book, by complementing theoretical frameworks to empirical evidences, provides comprehensive insight into the national discourse on ethnic...