After emerging from 27 years of TPLF repression in Ethiopia, the best way forward would have been for all aggrieved parties to work together towards inclusive justice. Alas, this is not the case in Ethiopia and Africa as a whole; we have been so conditioned to view human rights through the lens of ethnicity that we keep reverting back to the same trap that imprisons us. A new day is no different than the old era, the only discrepancy is the new tribe in power.
There are many reasons why Africa continues to flounder when we have enough resources to flourish. At the top of the list are vested interests who have everything to gain by keeping the continent divided and destabilized through planned strife. However, we can only blame outsides for so long before we start realizing that the issue is staring at us in the mirror.
The truth is that no weapon formed against us could prosper if we could only be united as a people. Yet, far from coming together, we keep splintering apart. If the key to wealth was found through separatism, Africa would be the richest destination in the world. The opposite is true, the more we partition ourselves behind the ghettos of identity and the Bantustans of tribes, the more we are...continued...
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