[A note from the brink of hopelessness] Ethiopia is in the verge of conflict due to power struggle between regional and federal government incumbents. The regional governments and their apparatus have fallen in the hands of ethnocentric forces who are threats to minority groups in their respective regions. The only sober voice is coming from Somali regional leaders who have maintained their regional autonomy as well as trying to get deserved representation in the federal government. The rest, specifically the powerful three - Oromia, Amhara and Tigray regional states' leaders are making life difficult for the silent majority. People have been mobilized based on ethnocentric narratives and co-existence with differences is almost impossible. Homogenization of regional states have become a new fashion against diversity. Currently, Oromos are not in power; they are not privileged. But, Oromo-nationalism took power in the federal gov of Ethiopia. The most powerful men in Eth...
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