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A party-state derailed: The techno-politics of infrastructure and bureaucracy in EPRDF’s Ethiopia
After years of political turmoil, popular protests and demands for social change, one of Africa’s longest serving and powerful parties, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) dissolved in 2019. This thesis traces the disintegration of this party-state apparatus in its latter years through the analytical lens of the Addis-Djibouti Railway, a project that was part of the Ethiopian state’s larger infrastructure investment boom.