Ethnicity and Class in Ethiopia

Ethiopia Class and Ethnicity Cultural and ethnic diversity is extremely rich throughout all of Africa, The African continent is comprised of thousands of ethnic groups, class structures, and more than seventy mother spoken languages. The class concept is defined as a group of individuals who share a common status in society based on cultural, political, or economic position in the productive process of society (Schrader 147). Several of the ethnic groups are broken down into sub-group …

…to changing the country’s social structure and created new tensions and contradictions within. The educated elite served as the bearer of new ideas and suffered the brunt of new frustrations. Although the creation of a modern education system dates back to the immediate post World War II era, Ethiopia probably has a smaller educated class of the size of its population than most other African states (Ottaway, Maria and David; Ethiopia Empire in Revolution 23).