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    The Amhara Elites’ Monumental Failure in Insisting on a Dead Language for Primary Education

    By Olii Boran (PhD, Sociology) Posted on2025-09-182025-09-18

    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.

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    When Lawmakers Fan Dangerous Flames: The Case of Dr Sisay Mengiste

    By Olii Boran Posted on2025-04-182025-04-18

    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....

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