Coz of policies and strategies meant to cripple and tear apart
Exploiting the rift along different political and ethnic groups
Creating and nurturing divisions with a hope to see prolonged chaos
Funding and fueling any possible militant group
That left the government and the people lose their focus
Every now and then fighting against visible and invisible hands
That created a conducive environment for poverty to breed
That’s how we suffered
Which brought us to the point where we’re sick and tired
This is the land of patriots
Who never gave their hands to colonizers
Whose conviction to freedom has been unshaken
Tasted over and over the ages and proved unchanging
There is no reason to be bound
by the so called agreement reached – in the colonial period
Among the nations under colony
Labeling 0% to 86% contributor country
What a fair water share! What a blessed smart neighbor!
Who has a long vision to walk together!
What a shame to listen to a neighbor crying like a dog over a power generation dam which doesn’t consume a droplet of water
This is the pride of Africa
The land where Nelson Mandela received training
Where he learnt the ABC of struggle and conquest
The land where the yes – we can news was heralded to the black fellows in bondage
A new horizon of hope to the whole continent
The pride of Africa – on its way to rediscover its original height
Over 100 million sons and daughters of the icon of freedom to the black world
Waged war against poverty that kept us lag behind
Regardless of ethnicity and religion
Against a common enemy to all
It’s time for history to repeat itself
On the battle of Adwa the second
Ethiopia shall rise breaking the chains that held it back,
Demolishing the walls of division and breaking the chains of hatred.
El-Winner Merid, Lecturer at Kotebe Metropolitan University. Can be reached with
The Ethiopian Herald July 25/2020
El winner Merid
