A United Nations vote to condemn the enslavement of Africans and the trans-Atlantic slave trade should have been morally straightforward. Instead, the voting pattern revealed something deeper about the modern world: the past is never just the past. It lives in politics, memory, and responsibility, and sometimes history returns and asks the present to respond.
The inauguration of the Shebele Resort near Jijigaa under the PP regime of PM Abiy Ahmed is more than a development event; it is a political statement. Held without Oromo representation in an Oromo city, and amid ongoing violence in eastern Oromia, the ceremony signals the normalization of exclusion and the quiet ratification of a long-contested administrative arrangement. What was once presented as a temporary “loan” of Jijigaa has now hardened into permanent political appropriation, with profound consequences for constitutional order and regional stability.
A fringe party’s audacious proposal to erase Oromia and other regions of the oppressed nations and nationalities has exposed a deeper crisis: the entrenched complacency and political paralysis of the majority. This is not merely the aggression of a fringe party attempting to erase Oromia and other regions; it is the predictable outcome of a majority conditioned to tolerate the intolerable. Ethiopia’s tragedy persists because boldness from the few meets silence from the many.
Oromia now faces a widening expansionist push—driven by local opportunists, reinforced by external actors, and carried along by a region long caught up in the politics of spite that has defined the Horn. These forces promote territorial fantasies that collapse under scrutiny. The article argues that only a free, self-determined Oromia can break this cycle, restoring stability to the Horn and creating the conditions for a genuine synergy of prosperity with its neighbors.
Ethiopia’s empire survived not through shared prosperity but through a half-blind fear of equality. Like the parable of rulers who preferred to lose one eye just to blind their people twice over, it clung to domination instead of development, coercion instead of consent. A century of brilliance was wasted on internal siege rather than nation-building. Yet a different future is possible — one built on voluntary partnership, equal dignity, and the courage to imagine freedom beyond imperial habit.
The push to impose Ge'ez as a subject in Ethiopian primary schools in the Amhara region has reignited debate on the futility of elevating a dead language. Across history, such languages remain confined to liturgy or scholarship, never revived as mediums of modern schooling. Insisting otherwise is political miscalculation that risks alienation instead of cohesion.
Excerpt Across cultures, the gentleperson embodies timeless virtues: respect, integrity, empathy, and self-restraint. More than a gendered label or social rank, a gentleperson is a moral compass in action—graceful under pressure, humble yet firm, protective of others. In today’s noisy world, this quiet strength offers a powerful model of dignity and ethical leadership. The Rise...
Faarseebulaa refers to Ethiopia’s emerging class of Digital Serfs—individuals who voluntarily serve authoritarian systems through online propaganda. Unlike historical peasants or proletariats who resisted oppression, the Faarseebulaa defend it for personal gain, low self-worth, and limited awareness. They are not rulers, yet they passionately safeguard the system that exploits the majority.
Questions for Troubling Rhetoric Where does freedom of speech end, and the incitement of dangerous, ethnically charged propaganda begin? At what point does public discourse shift from a right to speak one’s mind into a reckless abuse of influence—especially when the speaker holds public office in a fragile, multi-ethnic society? These are not abstract questions....
Introduction Emperor Haile Selassie ascended to the throne on April 2, 1930. Just over a year later, on July 16, 1931, he promulgated the country’s first modern Constitution. In that founding document, the name “Ethiopia” was formally constitutionalized for the first time—replacing the historical name “Abyssinia.” This name change, however, did not gain international recognition...
An Article by Invitation Introduction In the age of satellites, algorithms, and global awareness, one might assume that cultural denial has no place left to hide. And yet, Ethiopia—a multinational entity whose sociopolitical structure still bears the hallmarks of an unreconciled empire—continues to find creative ways to deny the Oromo people what is clearly, obviously,...
Excerpt The crisis of Oromia can be summed up in a single, stark sentence: Oromia’s greatest hazard is its own wealth. The sheer abundance of its resources has drawn in competing forces, each vying for control. This relentless scramble has made the realization of Oromia’s self-determination—a cause championed for decades—an even more daunting challenge. Today,...
Synopsis The name Ethiopia is often presented as an unbroken historical identity, tracing back to ancient times. However, a closer examination of historical records, international registrations, and linguistic origins reveals that the name Ethiopia, as applied to a modern empire-state, lacks continuity before the 20th century. Instead, it was a political rebranding strategy, gaining official...
There exists, in the crumbling, treacherous landscape of modern politics, a rare and nearly mythical figure—the Politician of Unyielding Principle. Unlike the fair-weather careerists who slither from one political feast to another, sniffing for power like a desperate hound at a butcher’s door, this individual is cut from stone, his convictions carved deep, immovable, impervious...
by Olii Boran, PhD (an article by invitation) Leadership, often idealized as a mechanism for fostering stability, driving progress, and leaving behind a positive legacy, can also be manipulated as a tool for perpetuating dysfunction. "Leading by chaos, not competence" encapsulates a leadership strategy where chaos is not an accident, but a deliberate tool used...
Excerpt: She is not poor but dispossessed. The tear-streaked face of an Oromo woman from northern Oromia, captured in a single haunting photograph, tells a story of systemic betrayal. Her sadness is not born of fate but of deliberate cruelty—of a government that abandoned her, of militias that stole her land, and of institutions that...
