We have arrived at the moment that many warned about in the past, after 28 years of “ethnic federalism”, which is nothing more than apartheid rebranded, Ethiopia is at the doorstep of chaos. This is what happens when politics is driven by grievance and governance is determined by identity; the strife taking place in Addis Abeba and throughout the country is a manifestation of close to three decades of Bantustanizing Ethiopia.
Tensions have been boiling for a long time, the lack of resources and opportunity for the vast majority of Ethiopians have created a paradigm of omnipresent resentment. You would never know the depth of the average Ethiopian’s suffering if you just read the press clippings that are always lauded by government officials and economists, while foreign investment pours into the country and the elites talk about “economic development”, almost all of the gains were pocketed by a few while the rest were left out in the cold.
Forget the tale of two cities, in Ethiopia we have a saga of two nations. On one ledger are the privileged fraction of society without respect to ethnicity who have been leading lives of luxury while on the other side are tens of millions of Ethiopians who have been turned into renters in their own country. This untenable reality was kept in place through a mix of brutality and deception; leaders like...continued...
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