We become our names. That is why one of the most important decisions parents make is what to call their children. This truism became glaringly evident two days ago as a young Ethiopian lady claimed the microphone with the soul of arbegnoch and spoke defiantly in defense of Ethiopiawinet. In a paradigm where many are flocking to zeregnenet (tribalism) and seeking the easy way by catering to people’s tribal disposition, a poet reminded us of the inherent love of Ethiopia that is embedded in our DNAs.
As noted, people become their names. Where Jawar declares wars with his jaws and splinters Ethiopians along ethnic lines, Hilina Desalegn gladly became our conscience and extolled the essence of unity through her verses. Without mentioning names, she reduced the playbook of demagogues to ashes and did so with the elegance of a [deleted] and the tenacity of jegnas at Adwa.
There is a reason why despots tremble before ideas more than they fear bullets. Words have a way of awakening the spirits of dejected people. For forty-five years, Ethiopians have been subjected to one repression after another and have been conditioned through a mix of propaganda and anguish to a point of collective depression. Where some choose to isolate behind indifference or mirror the tactics of ethnonationalism that landed our country into a...continued...
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