Accordingly, it concluded that, statues represent the political context of these three consecutive regimes in Ethiopian polity. In the process of political shift, when the former regime replaced by the new one, simultaneously, the former statues are dismantled and dislocated and the new statues that represents the current political ideology are constructed and replaced. The study lastly summarizes the erected statues in the three Ethiopia regimes are highly tied with the political manifesto each regime. To achieve this purpose, several documents from Culture and Tourism Bureaus and library archives are analyzed qualitatively. The main purpose of this paper is to describe the political representation of iconic statues erected in three, Imperial monarchy, Derg Military Junta and Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) regimes in Ethiopia.
Statue is an object that represents the religion, history, culture, art, socio- economic and political practices of one nation. They also have a power to immortalize an intended ideology. They serve as a rallying point for shared common memory and identity and, hence, are used as a collective remembrance. Statues are symbols which represent dynamic societal values.
