May 3
If peace is to mean anything more than the suspension of open conflict, it must begin from a more exacting premise: that Ethiopia’s peoples are bound to one another in a shared, though deeply unequal, historical relationship. They have not inhabited separate worlds. They have shaped one another’s conditions of life, often violently, sometimes productively, always consequentially. No group stands wholly outside the story of the others. No future worthy of the name can be constructed on the pretence that one community’s security can be secured in abstraction from the fears, memories, and claims of the rest.
Geleta T. Berisso in African Arguments. Ethiopia Does Not Need a Golden Past – It Needs an Honest Future
