Kinfu
For years, I have wondered how the heads of Ethiopian liberation front ideologues compute. Have they ever heard of inconsistency, opportunism and hypocrisy?
Ethiopians today live across the world, even in Italy—our former would-be colonizer. Many marry Italians, raise children, learn the language, and build new lives. The same country Menelik once defeated with a multiethnic army is now, for many, a second home. Yet living there, we do not demand Qube or propose Gadaa in their parliament. (They chose to teach Geʽez of their own accord, but no one dictates their language.) We have moved on—grown up and even forgiven those who once sought to enslave us.
Yet somehow, some Ethiopians still find time to butcher children from their own country, because of their ethnicity.
Let’s spell this out:
You can marry the granddaughter of Mussolini, but shoot an Amhara child in cold blood?
You’ll tolerate racism in Rome, smile through humiliation, but burn villages in Shewa because of some unfounded ancient grudge?
Yesterday’s Woyane torturers become your political allies, but innocent civilians from another ethnicity, Amhara, Gamo, Somali etc… are your eternal enemies?
How do these facts add up when logic and morality are sent to die? Is this some kind of prehistoric computation?
You trust the very Woyane who once jailed and tortured you, raped your sisters, and looted your towns – because today, they share your “ethnic cause.” Meanwhile, you murder someone who has never harmed you, simply because their grandparents might have benefited from imperial policy – probably as much as yours also did.
This isn’t justice. It’s tribalism with a smartphone.
You chant “liberation” and “resistance” – but only when your group imagines pain. When it’s your side holding the gun, you call it “defense” or “liberation.”
Menelik’s Legacy vs. Bantustan Fantasies
Menelik built a nation through unity, sometimes by force, using an Ethiopian army, often through compromise, diplomacy, inter-marriage, and he protected Ethiopia from being carved up in the Scramble for Africa.
And what do we know? Had he not acted, we might now be facing not only anti-Amhara persecution, but also a patchwork of Oromo clan-based Bantustans, killing each other over imaginary borders and tribal revenge.
Look around Africa: The Hausa-Fulani? Scattered across Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon – divided and diluted. The Somali? Split into five regions, still struggling to reunify. The Akan and the Ewe? Sliced between Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire by colonial rulers.
India-Pakistan? Their partition cost over a million lives, and they’re still pointing nuclear weapons at each other.
Menelik spared Ethiopia that fate. And now, in the age of Wi-Fi and TikTok, you want to dismantle the country with hashtags and machete, because your feelings are hurt? Because you regret that the Oromo invasions didn’t last forever to eradicate or displace more tribes and tyrannize the whole country?
We’ve forgiven your ancestors. We don’t hold you responsible for their raids, or violence. So why are you dragging today’s children into yesterday’s blood?
In conclusion, Ethnofanaticism is no liberation movement, it is a tantrum draped in a Nazi flag, serving only elite profiteers. Maybe it is telling that your banner, Black, Red and White, mirrors Nazism; Ethiopia’s flag, by contrast, Green, Yellow, and Red, shares its colors with the whole of independent Africa.
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