"The most central message of the paper is that if Ethiopia has to continue as a modern nation, critical citizenship is required that ensures a ‘true equality between its peoples.’ It is difficult now to continue with the essentialist view of Ethiopia as the oldest nation in the world and as a land of bliss, wherein its nations and nationalities lived in equality. This was a false political discourse that has been used by the rulers to throw people together. Unity is more that throwing people together and making them pray in one language. The day-to-day evidences show that there are several conservative nationalists who have difficulty in accepting the reality that Ethiopia, which the conquest of Menelik II formed at the end of the 19th century, is an agglomeration of divergent nations and nationalities."
Posted on: Sun, 28 Jul 2013 08:53:40 +0000
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