Bereket Habte Selassie is an Emeritus Distinguished Professor of African Studies and Professor of Law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Fellow, African Academy of Sciences. This site is dedicated to his life long commitment to humanity and accomplishment in many areas. He is an author of many books, articles and publications. 

His latest book is a portrait of President Donald J. Trump and “President” Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea. These two odious autocratic leaders with kingly inclinations are from two different continents, but they bear the same psychological make-up of despots.

1. The Making of the Eritrean Constitution (2003), which also contains aspects of Political Science;
2. Eritrea and the United Nations (1989), which contains International Law and International Relations;
3. Focus on the Eritrean Constitution (2019);
4. Self-Determination in Principle and Practice: The Ethiopian and Eritrean Experience (Major Article published in Columbia Human Rights Law Review. Volume 29, Number 1, Fall 1997);
[This is a widely read work for which the author received accolades and invitations to lecture on the subject in South Africa, Tanzania and Nigeria.
5. Democracy and the Role of Law Under the Eritrean Constitution
  (Article published in the North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation. Volume 24, Number 2, Winter, 1999);
6. Development Lending and Institution Building. (Article published in Journal of African Law. Volume 19, Numbers 1 & 2, Spring and Autumn 1975);
7.  Constitutional Development in Ethiopia. Journal of African Law 1966);
8. Reimagining Pan-Africanism (Third Distinguished Mwalimu Nyerere Lecture Series. 2011);
 

 

9. Emperor Haile Selassie Ohio University (Short Histories of Africa. 2014);
10. The Crown and The Pen (The Memoirs of a Lawyer Turend Rebel. 2007);
 
11. Wounded Nation. (Memoirs, Sequel to The Crown and The Pen. 2011); 

12. Words That Govern and Other Essays on Law and Politics.2018);

13. While Waiting or Working For Change–Things To Do and Pitfalls To Avoid. 2015.

14. Constitutional Government-Basis for Stability and Development (In Tigrigna). 1996.

15. Riding the Whirlwind, Novel (1993)

16. The Devil in God’s Land, a Play (2012);

17. Deliverance, A novel (2017); 

18. Defiance, A novel (2019).

19. Conflict and Intervention in The Horn of Africa (1980).

20. Behind the War in Eritrea (London 1983). Editor/Contributor

21. The Executive in African Governments (London 1974)

22. United States Policy Towards The Horn of Africa (August 1983)

23. [Forthcoming in 2021]. Pillars of Eritrea’s Nation Statehood. Editor Contributor

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