Soul's Wisdom

The Stolen Narrative: Reclaiming Africa's Soul Our Buried Inheritance Ethiopia—and Africa—possess a  living tapestry  of history: ancestral wisdom in 3,000 tongues, cultures deeper than soil, unity forged through millennia, and pride in the melanin that maps our genesis. These are not relics, but  birthrights . Yet they were  deliberately fractured —not for being too vast, but too unifying. Colonial architects knew: united cultures resist exploitation. The Generation of Lost Stories 70% of Africa is youth (20-35) but all of them (100%) were robbed of their roots. Our elders’ truths were silenced by political puppets branding historians "tribalists" or "backward." Western-curated textbooks replaced oral epics. Youth learned  distortion as doctrine : Diversity became division, Kinship became suspicion, Shared land became "stolen"territory. The weaponization of identity has become the main strategy to implement the fictional narrative making us victi...

I love my birthplace—Addis Ababa. I love my village, my town, and my country. How could I not? I believe the same holds true for every Ethiopian. We are deeply connected to our people, our languages, our landscapes, our food, our culture, and everything we grew up with. It is part of who we are. Ethiopia, like many African countries, is vast and diverse—stretching across the south, north, west, and east. To give you a sense of scale: the eastern part of Ethiopia alone is comparable in size to the entire country of France. As a nation, we are large, rich in heritage, and culturally and linguistically diverse. Yet, for generations, Ethiopians—like many Africans—have been fed a single, fictional narrative. We were told we are “poor,” “uncivilized,” “backward,” and even “liquid” — a term some Western thinkers used to label developing nations, in contrast to their supposedly “solid” societies. But the events of recent years, the COVID-19 pandemic, have revealed the truth: no country is trul...