%0 Journal Article %T Local government in Ethiopia: still an apparatus of control? %A Z Ayele %J Law, Democracy & Development %D 2011 %I University of the Western Cape %X Historically, local authorities in Ethiopia enjoyed wide political, administrative, judicial, and financial autonomy. However, from the 1850s a process of territorial expansion and centralisation was initiated in the country. %U http://www.ajol.info/index.php/ldd/article/view/70804