My memories of university life contain lots of adventures. They encompass both good and bad experiences. I would say, however, that it was the most apolitical phase of my life. I was somewhat dormant, in terms of analysing economic, social and political issues.
There is one front, however, that I remember with an abundance of pain, and that is the topic of sexuality. There is a rampant culture in Ethiopian universities to consider sex as an instrument of both subjugation and liberation, and women are the main actors in both cases.
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