Being Ahead of Time: Leenco Lata of 1990 and Abiy Ahmed of 2020!
At the time, when almost all Oromo nationalists were fighting for an independent Gadaa Oromia, Leenco Lata came out with an idea of democratizing Ethiopia as federal union and integrating the Horn as common home. Then he was labelled as Gantuu (betrayer) of Oromo struggle and had to endure all curses and insults under the sun. Now, all who opposed him are in Ethiopia doing the same politics he envisioned. The same way, Dr Abiy is moving further and came up with notion of Medemer (synergy) puting even the federal union in question and promoting an integrated Ethiopia (Great Oromia) under Oromo leadership. Again a lot of Oromo nationalists are against this development, not to dismantle ethnic federalism. May be the timing is wrong, but Dr. Abiy’s move is visionary. An integrated Great Oromia (democratic Ethiopia) is Oromo politics of high confidence, federal union is that of intermediate confidence and of course an independent Gadaa Oromia shows our low confidence. We may come to his idea in the future lagging behind in time.
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Being Ahead of Time: Leenco Lata of 1990 and Abiy Ahmed of 2020!
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