State Bureaucrats, Intellectuals and the Government: an Approach to the Horn Ruling Class

This article analyses the role of intellectuals and bureaucrats in Ethiopia in the twentieth century. They characterised the new milieu of the modern independent country, the unique case of an ancient state surviving the colonial conquest during the scramble for Africa. For a long historical period, Ethiopia had a religious and secular literature that was an expression of the interrelation between power an society, a standardised literature that produced an important number of historical documents reiterated and copied along centuries continuously.