Who were the “Young Ethiopians” (or “Young Abyssinians

Abstract

education in Ethiopia. This came about partly as a result of the dispatch of students
abroad, and partly through the establishment of modern schools within the country itself.
Both developments combined to create a small, but growing, class of foreign-orientated
Ethiopians. This was a class entirely new in Ethiopian history: a class whose, means of
employment, skills, values, and modes of thought, differed markedly from those of their
traditionally-minded and more conservative contemporaries.