Mr. Obang Metho Addresses the Ethiopian community in Calgary, Canada. Thank you to Calgary Ethiopian Unified Task Force for inviting me to come here to your beautiful city to talk about the future of our country. The theme of my talk today will be focusing on the opportunities we Ethiopians have missed over and over again throughout our history. In order to not repeat our mistakes, we must think about the reasons for our failures and what to do in the future to avoid them. I believe the lack of strong institutions has undermined our progress as a country and as a people. Such institutions must be built by people of strong moral character who are willing to engage in the struggle for the common good. These go hand-in-hand and should lead to building relationships of trust and agreeing on shared core values. This begins by talking to each other. Only then can we broaden our efforts to create a more just and free Ethiopia for all rather than only for a few from one’s own ethnic group. Let us start by reviewing our history of repeated crises over the last nearly eighty years, as well as including one encouraging example of a crisis where the outcome was largely a success. The questions I will attempt to answer are: When and what led us into these crises? Why have we failed to build a better Ethiopia for all? What was different when we succeeded? Will we miss our opportunity again? What must we do to avoid failure once again? Let us think back to some of the greatest crises in our more recent history. solidaritymovement.org/141018-Calgary-talk-Ethiopia-in-crisis.php
Posted on: Sun, 02 Nov 2014 00:39:30 +0000
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