| Summary: | Since 2011, Muslim demonstrations contesting Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front’s involvement in Islamic affairs have marked Ethiopian politics. Starting from these unprecedented events, this article doesn’t focus primarily on Islam in Ethiopia but rather on what these recent events tell us about the way EPRDF has been governing the country. The influence of historical trajectories should not be underestimated, when Muslims have been politically marginalized since their first contact with Ethiopia in the seventh century. But conjunctures should be taken into account in a region marked by real security threats. Above all, recent religious tensions are deriving from concrete political authoritative practices of the regime’s leadership.
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