{"id":273430,"date":"2019-04-18T07:37:51","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T11:37:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=273430"},"modified":"2019-04-18T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T11:37:51","slug":"bekele-gerba-took-away-my-lover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273430","title":{"rendered":"Bekele Gerba took away my lover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D4MrQG-OuCk<\/p>\n<p>Bekele Gerba, a former English professor at Addis Ababa University and a prominent politician in OFC, attended a panel discussion about Oromo language development and challenges. In the panel discussion, Professor Bekele provided a controversial and racist resolution by abolishing any union with non-Oromo people. His statement received a much-deserved backlash for inciting racial segregation in a deeply intertwined society like Ethiopia. Many experts have also spoken against the professor and questioned his goal was. This article of a love story gone wrong was written in the context of what would happen if people choose to accept Bekele Gerba\u2019s resolution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=D4MrQG-OuCk Bekele Gerba, a former English professor at Addis Ababa University and a prominent politician in OFC, attended a panel discussion about Oromo language development and challenges. In the panel discussion, Professor Bekele provided a controversial and racist resolution by abolishing any union with non-Oromo people. His statement received a much-deserved backlash for inciting racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":273431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Bekele-Gerba-took-away-my-lover.jpg?fit=489%2C346&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-198a","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273432,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273430\/revisions\/273432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/273431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}