Balew DemissieRozina Alemu2024-12-262024-12-262024-07https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/4011Ethiopia is a unique nation in Africa with a distinctive national character. Its ability "to sustain an unbroken chain of historical civilization free of foreign "corruption" for millennia" has been primarily cited as the reason for the country's uniqueness. One important factor that sets Ethiopians apart from other Africans and people of African descent worldwide is their awareness of their race, which also greatly excludes them from the western (modern) racial classifications. Despite the important role that Ethiopians' race identity plays in their local, regional (African), and worldwide racial relations, Ethiopian and other African scholars seem to have failed to investigate Ethiopians' race consciousness. Another problem that adds to the misperceptions and misunderstandings surrounding the topic is that the scant studies and researches on this topic that are now available are works of Eurocentric scholarship with a predominantly biased picture of an African reality. According to several scholars, Ethiopia's lengthy history of trade, religious exchanges, and ancient civilization have had a significant influence on the development of its own distinct character.Although it is true that these presumptions could provide a logical foundation for drawing a sound conclusion regarding Ethiopians' unique race identity consciousness in Africa, it would be reasonable to question why Ethiopians came to favor a particular racial grouping in the first place. I entirely concentrate on the key historical events and facts that, in my opinion, are essential to comprehending the problem of Ethiopian race, laying aside implications of the complicated and fluid notion of modern race identity itself on this dilemma and its potential response at this early stage.enBasha Ashebir BamericaNational IdentityThesis