DefendTheTruth wrote: ↑12 Jun 2025, 17:27
… after that long and devastating war between the brotherly people of Ethiopia.
There was some madness, and that madness didn't separate the children of one mother, Ethiopia!
DefendTheTruth:
I listened to Ali Bira’s song once again and realized for the first time that the first word out of his mouth, ዐመል, is a common word in both ኦሮምኛ and አማርኛ። I am not sure it is different in ትግርኛ።
Does this single word inform about what you now call one mother?
Does it also inform how much Ali Bira was uninformed when he released this song? If he were informed deeply, his domain for his lyrics wouldn’t be limited and disproven by the first word out of his mouth in his song.
Did you get a chance to read a potential answer for his question in the song that I recently posted on this forum?
Here is part of it with one additional line.
ጋራ ኣዴ ጄዸ፣ ደካ ኣዴ ጄዸ
አቺ ኣብ ጄዸ፣ አሲ አባ ጄዸ
ኩን ዉዳሴ ኦለ፣ ሱን ዌድሳ ኦለ
አሲ ሸግዬ ጄዸ፣ አቺ ሸጎዬ ጄዸ
ካን ፈወሴ ጄዸ፣ ካንሞ ፍይሴ ጄዸ
That said, in my view, Hararghe was a kind of a model Ethiopian federal state during the time of Dergue.
When I was in college, students from Hararghe had an outstanding fame of the most friendly of any other place in Ethiopia. I stand to be corrected by anyone who was in college at the time.
I realized later on that people from Hararghe are mostly fluent bilinguals.
For good or bad, three successive Ethiopian leaders was either born or have lived in Hararghe for a while.
It also produced bilingual musicians like Bizunesh Bekele and Hamelmal Abate.
I imagine that these are traits of a model federal state or two that could have been built up if what you called political insanity didn’t visit the children of one mother.