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Western’s Palpable Attack on Africa /with sarcasm/

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  How lucky Africans are to have considerate foster parents (western nations) who are always ready to lead and help us grow up all the way to adulthood! They sympathize with Africans as we are sightless; if at all we see, it’s a different thing than the reality, so westerners are there to rescue us by seeing the right thing for us; what a blessing! We Africans are also hard of hearing, although we claimed to hear voices; so, our foster parents come extra mile to hear and tell us what’s being said. For our own benefit, our foster parents tell us what we can and cannot do; Africans even don’t have to think for ourselves because democracy is a nice thing in that it thinks more to its foster children than itself (remember parents are not selfish) and choose what’s “better” for its children. What fantastic foster parents we have! The western nations have for long treated Africans as human beings without the faculty to operate on their own. Africans have lived in a world where the western na
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Silencing the Empty Viral Shriek in Unison

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Come up with any kind of bogus today, fill it with emotional and flamboyant language, attach a video clip to it and instantaneously post it to the multiple social media – I bet you, in no time, you would see millions of people reacting to it: some would even share it to another thousands and, by the end of the day, the whole world has consumed your empty viral shriek. Besides, the mainstream global news machinery would amplify your fabrication with some of their flashy archives adding more color to make it look genuine. The next day, to your dismay, you would hear government leaders and reps of international orgs unanimously pledging to take action against it, without even validating the sham. A weird but effective neocolonial scheme to confuse the world! Again in almost every news hour of the global media broadcast, the mainstream news deafeningly reverberates in our ears their pretentious verbosity,   such as   ‘inevitability of inter-dependences of humanity’; keeping intact shared
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If only we Africans Could Use Our Senses

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  If only we, Africans, saw, not with our bare eyes but with our “hearts” as we used to  If only we sensed our strength and unique agility If only we heard the sharp wisdom voices of our ancestors, and not the “modern” absurdity If only we sniffed the rat wrapped with the handed over financial aid, and not the phony benefits If only we felt the coarseness of the glittering jewels, before we swapped them with our real diamonds If only we weren’t as naïve as children to believe and accept all we were told about western egalitarianism If only we were as wise as our fellowmen to discern the sugar-coated from that of honey If only we had the courage to boldly scrutinize like our descendants, the authenticity of every “gift” thrown to us by the west If only we felt the wealth of our lands and if only, we knew they’re the sources for all medical remedies If only we saw the flair of our people to become wealthier and happier If only we believed, as our trailblazers, the key to all our happ
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Becoming Victims of a Single Fictional Narrative (part 2)

Ethiopians as well as other African countries have numerous genuine but untold stories of the past that emanate from their historical roots and values - rich cultures, different languages, vast local wisdoms, close upbringings and unity, pride in their black color, great flavors, the fertile lands and other natural resources. These are great blessings to us and are very proud of them. Well, we cannot finish retelling them here in this short article. But these stories were not properly passed on to the generations in their original forms. Not because they were vast, but because they were meant to tie Africans with one another and become difficult to exploit their resources by westerners if presented in a genuine way. So sad that these stories were untold to the present youth in their upbringing as children (at least in their original versions) that all conflicts we are seeing now became the results of them. These youth (I'm referring to) comprises 70% of the current African popu
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Becoming Victims of a Single Fictional Narrative (part 1)

I love my birthplace, Addis Ababa, my village, my town, and my country. How can I not? And I believe so do every Ethiopian. We all feel attached to the people, the culture, languages, the land, the weather, food, and all our belongings we grew up with. Ethiopia, as most African countries, is large and has many people living in the south, north, west, and east. Just to give you a pictorial comparison, the eastern part of Ethiopia alone is equivalent to the whole of France. As huge nation as we are, we have rich and diversified cultures, languages, and resources. Nevertheless, the generations were constantly told to believe a single fictional narrative about themselves – that they are “poor”, “uncivilized”, and “backwards” or “liquid” (a terminology the westerners coined to describe the third world, as opposed to theirs -“solid” countries:) And now we know that there's no such thing as ‘solid’ versus ‘liquid’ countries. In fact, we are all living in liquid times, thanks to COVID19 t
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“Predicting” Tomorrow

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I guess giving a challenge to an audience has become a conversation-opener in the social media these days, just as talking about the weather used to serve as one before the invention of smart phones😊. So, let me challenge you to take a minute or so to think about your future, and answer this question - 'If you could predict your tomorrow, what would it look like?' I’m so certain that many of you would optimistically respond to it. You would come up with many positive remarks despite the current awful world scenario of COVID19, which not only brought so many devastation of human lives, but also also ripped off our bright expectations of the future. The world we live in has shown exponential growth in many aspects: wealth, population, technology and life styles. Society has become closer to one another, share valuable information via the aid of advanced tech at its fingertips. Yet, it has not and won’t be able to rightly predict what would happen to its habitat in the future, ev
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*Fact VS Factoid

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I may not be the first to see glaringly clear that the popularity of the infant democracy has waned in Ethiopia even before it has flourished enough. In fact, this trend seems to be consistent throughout the passing years. Sadly, the other African nations, who were in a similar path of flourishing are also seen choosing the same downward movement. People, especially the young, in this country, seem to have become severely myopic and intolerant with one another in this process of building democracy. Instead of trying to analyze the facts from the factoids, they simply label people based on a totally irrelevant yardstick. I don't want to blame them as they learned this from their predecessors. Let me give you an instance: if one comments on any nationwide issue or a politician’s speech in a social media, (s)he’s to be immediately pigeon-holed. (S)he would NOT be evaluated based on the merits of his/her suggested ideas, but rather on whose race or creed, or color (s)he belongs to. The
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