International Journal of Ethiopian Studies (IJES) is an interdisciplinary, refereed journal dedicated to scholarly research relevant to or informed by the Ethiopian experience. IJES publishes two issues a year of original work in English and/or Amharic to readers around the world. 

Established in 2002, the IJES is dedicated to the research and study of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. The Journal is filled with relevant, in-depth information—original articles, reviews, and features—on important issues and serves as a venue for the sharing and cross-fertilization of research by scholars working on issues that matter to the region. It also promotes important voices from with in the country and around the world.

Title: International Journal of Ethiopian Studies (IJES)

Format: Journal (print and online--coming soon)

ISSN: 1543-4133

Publisher: Tsehai Publishers' African Academic Press

Periodicity: 2 issues (summer and winter) per year

Language: English, Amharic and other Ethiopian languages

Addition Sponsored and Special Issues: Yes

Published since: 2003

Geographical Area: Worldwide

 

“IJES will, for the first time, provide Ethiopian scholars with an Ethiopian venue for refl ecting seriously on Ethiopian issues from a scholarly perspective. As a number of philosophers have pointed out, one of the deepest obstacles to African (including Ethiopia) progress towards democracy and economic prosperity was the peculiar situation of Africans being reduced to an object of knowledge by contemporary social science and, consequently, the absence of Africans, including Ethiopians, as self-examining, self evaluating, self-defi ning, and self propelling subjects of history. As a result, we have been totally dependent on external (European and American) defi nitions, interpretations, explanations, evaluations of who we are and what our problems and their solutions are. IJES is an important step in breaking away from this objectifi cation of Ethiopia. It will provide a scholarly medium for Ethiopians to reclaim their subjectivity.”  Maimire Mennasemay, Professor at Dawson College