ENDORSEMENTS

The four endorsements printed on the back cover, in the wording as printed.


"I was one of the two men Baye argued it through with in the spring of 2015,
before the movement had a name, and I worked beside him in the years this book
recounts. I watched him pay its costs in real time. Half a Knife is the record
our movement never kept of itself: loyal to the cause, honest about its
weaknesses. Ethiopian politics has few books like it, because few people pay
this much and then tell the truth about it."
    — Dr Tewodros Nigatu, Associate Professor, University of Gondar


"Few political memoirs examine their own cause with such loyalty and candour.
Powerful and meticulously documented, this is both a witness to suffering and a
reckoning with honesty."
    — Dr Meseret Wondifraw, Postdoctoral Associate, Cornell University


"I can say without hesitation that this book has arrived exactly when we need
it. His story is the story of many who took an active part in the Ethiopian and
Amhara political struggle — told honestly, without flattering himself or anyone
else. For me personally, it was a mirror in which to examine myself."
    — Betre Yacob, former Managing Director, ASRAT Media, Washington D.C. Studio


"A compelling study of how grievances become movements, how media and diaspora
shape them, and why just causes can choose not the right strategies. Morally
clear and deeply self-questioning."
    — Amsal Woreta, Ethiopian political analyst, borkena.com
