{"id":278742,"date":"2019-06-12T11:35:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-12T15:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiX2h0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNi8xMi9uZXctZXRoaW9waWFuLW11c2ljLXRzZWdheWUtZXNoZXR1LXNpbGVzaGktZGVtaXNzaWUtbWluLWhvbmVuYWwv0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-28T11:31:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T15:31:47","slug":"tsegaye-eshetu-and-sileshi-demissie-released-min-honenal-asking-what-happened-to-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278742","title":{"rendered":"Tsegaye Eshetu and Sileshi Demissie released \u201cMin Honenal,\u201d asking what happened to Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On 12 June 2019 Borkena featured new Ethiopian music by Tsegaye Eshetu and Sileshi Demissie titled \u201cMin Honenal,\u201d which translates as \u201cWhat happened to us,\u201d and said the song reflected on ethnic violence, mass displacement, and unrest that had reached university grounds across the country.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-601742\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Tsegaye Eshetu and Sileshi Demissie released \u201cMin Honenal,\u201d asking what happened to Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>Borkena linked the track, uploaded that week on YouTube through Hope Entertainment, to a wider artistic lament about political strain after years of ethnic federal politics, and invited listeners to judge the song for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as music and culture archive, the Borkena post dates a June 2019 popular song that put Ethiopia\u2019s security crisis into Amharic lyric form.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/06\/12\/new-ethiopian-music-tsegaye-eshetu-sileshi-demissie-min-honenal\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Ethiopian Music : Tsegaye Eshetu , Sileshi Demissie &#8211; Min Honenal&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comNew Ethiopian Music : Tsegaye Eshetu and Sileshi Demissie &#8211; Min Honenal. They lament about the political situation in Ethiopia. Take a listen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601742,"comment_status":"closed","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-278742","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\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1avQ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278742","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755141,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278742\/revisions\/755141"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}