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Author: Mastewal Taddese Terefe

Mastewal Taddese Terefe

Mastewal Taddese Terefe is a student at New York University School of Law. She has earned a Master's degree in Public Policy from Oxford University and a Bachelor's degree in Political Science from NYU Abu Dhabi. In 2013, she o-founded a youth initiative to improve the quality of secondary education in Ethiopia.

  • "Growing up in Ethiopia, fluency in English was considered a mark of progress and elite status." Credit: UNICEF Ethiopia.
    EthiopiaSociety
    By Mastewal Taddese Terefe
    June 21, 2017
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    Ethiopia was colonised

    We kept the imperialists at bay, but it wasn’t enough. Like many African countries that were colonised by the British, Ethiopia’s educational system strongly privileges the ...
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