Oromo Elites Like Abiy Ahmed Having Menelik Syndrom!
Posted: 25 Sep 2020, 14:26
Oromo Elites Like Abiy Ahmed Having Menelik Syndrom!
Hermann Cohn gave us a nice diagnosis describing Oromo elites, who prefer to rever Amharanet, instead of respecting Oromumma. This disease of some Oromo elites is now rightly given the name Menelik syndrom. Surprisingly, Oromo rulers were despising Afaan Oromo and revering Ge’ez as well as Amharinya in the last about 3000 years. It started to happen because of the beginning of writing in Ge’ez and translation of the holy books to this language. It is logical and natural for human being to respect and value language of literature, especially when it is associated with the worshiped divinity. This is the previlage which Amharinya got vis a vis Afaan Oromo. Thus, Oromo rulers and elites wished to learn Amharinya and neglect Afaan Oromo. Such tendency of being Ge’ezized as well Amharanized continued till the emergence of the OLF about 50 years back. It was the OLF, who attempted to reverse this process and taught Oromo peaple to be proud of our language – Afaan Oromo. It also promoted Afaan Oromo to be language of literature and that of holy books. Now, our people started to respect and revere Afaan Oromo. But, our rulers (Dr. Abiy er al) are still commiting the same mistake done by previous rulers like Mengistu, H/Silassie, Menelik, Yekuno-Amlak….etc. They all promoted Amharinya at the cost of Afaan Oromo. I think, the main cause we have to struggle for must be promotion of Afaan Oromo to the primary working language of Ethiopia replacing Amharinya. The main working language of the palace, the parlament, the cabinet, the court and other institutions need to be Afaan Oromo. All Oromo nationals can have this issue as our common agenda. All other issues are secondary to this cause of promoting Afaan Oromo.
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Hermann Cohn gave us a nice diagnosis describing Oromo elites, who prefer to rever Amharanet, instead of respecting Oromumma. This disease of some Oromo elites is now rightly given the name Menelik syndrom. Surprisingly, Oromo rulers were despising Afaan Oromo and revering Ge’ez as well as Amharinya in the last about 3000 years. It started to happen because of the beginning of writing in Ge’ez and translation of the holy books to this language. It is logical and natural for human being to respect and value language of literature, especially when it is associated with the worshiped divinity. This is the previlage which Amharinya got vis a vis Afaan Oromo. Thus, Oromo rulers and elites wished to learn Amharinya and neglect Afaan Oromo. Such tendency of being Ge’ezized as well Amharanized continued till the emergence of the OLF about 50 years back. It was the OLF, who attempted to reverse this process and taught Oromo peaple to be proud of our language – Afaan Oromo. It also promoted Afaan Oromo to be language of literature and that of holy books. Now, our people started to respect and revere Afaan Oromo. But, our rulers (Dr. Abiy er al) are still commiting the same mistake done by previous rulers like Mengistu, H/Silassie, Menelik, Yekuno-Amlak….etc. They all promoted Amharinya at the cost of Afaan Oromo. I think, the main cause we have to struggle for must be promotion of Afaan Oromo to the primary working language of Ethiopia replacing Amharinya. The main working language of the palace, the parlament, the cabinet, the court and other institutions need to be Afaan Oromo. All Oromo nationals can have this issue as our common agenda. All other issues are secondary to this cause of promoting Afaan Oromo.
Read more: https://fayyisoromia.wordpress.com/2020 ... DHKVMcR2MA