Ethiopian Federalism and the Ethnic Politics of Divided Cities: Consociationalism without Competitive Multiparty Politics in Dire DawaFootnote^†

† This paper is based on the author’s research project ‘The Making of Dire Dawa: Post-1991 Conflict, Ethnicity and Power Sharing’ funded by Dire Dawa University (unpublished, 2013). As part of this project, the author has conducted nine interviews and two focus group discussions with policy-makers, politicians, bureaucrats and cultural leaders of Dire Dawa and Federal Government.

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