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  Systemic Wellbeing and the Multi‑Node Stability Function: A Development Economics Model for Social, Ecological, and Institutional Stability Temesgen Muleta-Erena (PhD) Economist, Sovereign Publisher, Epistemic Steward TC Press / The Codex Press, London Abstract This paper develops a unified development‑economics framework based on a Multi‑Node Stability Function (MNSF), a mathematical model in which social, ecological, and institutional wellbeing are treated as interdependent components of a single systemic health condition. The model challenges the dominant individual‑centric and GDP‑centric paradigms by demonstrating that development outcomes depend on the minimum health of all critical nodes, not the average performance of isolated sectors. Drawing on the Oromo concept of nagaa —an indigenous systems‑health logic in which personal wellbeing is inseparable from the wellbeing of family, community, animals, land, and the wider environment—the paper illustrates how pre‑scientific ...

  Dhidhessaa — The Greatest Hidden River of Africa A TC Press Cultural Geography Essay    By Temesgen Muleta‑Erena    TC Press, London TC PRESS CEREMONIAL PREFACE (For Dhidhessaa — The Greatest Hidden River of Africa) In the tradition of TC Press, London — where memory, culture, and scholarship meet — this essay is offered as an act of restoration. Dhidhessaa, a river spoken of in songs, guarded in elders’ voices, and carried in the footsteps of generations, has lived too long outside the written record. Its waters have shaped landscapes, nourished civilisations, and sustained the moral economy of generosity that defines the Oromo world. Yet the river remains absent from maps, misunderstood in hydrology, and unacknowledged in global narratives. This publication honours the river not as a geographical feature alone, but as a civilisational archive — a living corridor of ecology, culture, and political history. It recognises the Waamaa branch, whose story is pres...