Article: Addis Ababa: Migration and the Making of a Multiethnic Metropolis, 1941-1974

Getahun Benti. Addis Ababa: Migration and the Making of a Multiethnic Metropolis, 1941-1974. Trenton, N.J., and Asmara: The Red Sea Press, 2007. xviii + 279 pp. Photographs. Maps. Tables. Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $29.95. Paper.

The basic premise of this book is that the founding and growth of Addis Ababa stemmed from the political domination of the Amhara and their expansion into the vast labor- and resource-rich domain of the Oromo and other oppressed groups in the southern regions of the country. Getahun Benti argues that previous scholars of Ethiopian urbanization have simply ignored the role played by the imperious Amhara and their ethnic, linguistic, and cultural ...

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