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1. Having Arabic or Amara(Geez) names as a sign of being a Muslim or a Christian is a cultural colonization
2. Replacing with or corrupting Gurage names of places to sound Geez or Amharic is a colonial cultural genocide.
3. Gurage should start to re-learn everything it thought it knew about Islam, Amara and Ethiopia was wrong. It should look inward and honor its traditions and language.

NEBE registered Endibr(Indibr) as Emdibr. Growing up, I knew it as Endibr(Indibr). All Gurage call it Endibr. But now, they replaced n with m and corrupted it. Emdibr has no meaning in Chaha Gurage language.

The same goes for Gubrye, now changed to Gubre. Gunchirye to Gunchire. This pr*stitution of our culture by few well-placed Gurages and Amaras who come to work in Gurage should be defeated from destroying our traditions.

Dama wrote: ↑

21 Jun 2026, 11:29

1. Having Arabic or Amara(Geez) names as a sign of being a Muslim or a Christian is a cultural colonization
2. Replacing with or corrupting Gurage names of places to sound Geez or Amharic is a colonial cultural genocide.
3. Gurage should start to re-learn everything it thought it knew about Islam, Amara and Ethiopia was wrong. It should look inward and nlhonor its traditions and language.

NEBE registered Endibr(Indibr) as Emdibr. Growing up, I knew it as Endibr(Indibr). All Gurage call it Endibr. But now, they replaced n with m and corrupted. Emdibr has no meaning in Chaha language.
The same gies for Gubrye, now changed to Gubre. Gunchirye to Gunchire. This pr*stitution ofbour culture by few well-placed Gurages and Amaras who come to work in Gurage should be defeated from destroying our traditions.

That was how the colonizers pronounced them!
You know they are self centered and can not learn others culture and language easy. Shame on the regional leaders they registered the names like that. Enor also twisted to enemor!

Easy to fix. All that is need is a group to speak up and submit application to the Gurage Zone to correct thse name changes. The group can consist of 2+ n number of volunteers.

I don’t think it will b that easy!
The pigs in the region should have sorted out but doubt they are loyal to the regio

Also, shame guragigna news is under OBN. I have no idea why. Why it is not included in the new region at least. I knew opening a private media there is challenging now and they close you tube news but diaspora should have organized to do that! People tried and failed. As far as the dictators are not attacked, I don’t see why it is difficult to start basic news, entertainment, know your region and unite kind of YouTube TV or in air is difficult!