SPENT TIME IN ETHIOPIA

                I went to Ethiopia on the 28 November and came back from it. And then went back to it on the 30 December and now I am back from it. How was it? It doesn’t matter if it is to hell or to paradise, a trip to anywhere is exhausting but there are some places that add some exhilaration to the exhaustion and this trip was one of those.

The views were one of a kind. There was a green land all around the road but that wasn’t it that made its view special. The road itself was enough, no cracks or anything, but it still had a long way to go. It was the height of the trees that grew there and mountains. The trees were so high that most times you couldn’t see their peak unless you were above them and that is when we are on the mountains which had a high elevation. Up and down, the mountains were all covered with farms.The farms weren’t filled with technology but with real farmers, the ones who work day and night in there.

The other amazing thing was the food, even though I didn’t get the chance to go through the entire menu, I did have a chance to eat some of the best and –delicious-! The bigger the plate the more delicouis the food.I ate double and then triple and still got no diet problem The only problem that I faced was the language they spoke. It was't my home language nor any other. It was the Ethiopian language and if you don’t know the language, you are going to have hard time finding something who understands your tongue. I went to Ethiopia and I gave it two goods.

Why is Somaliland not Recognized?

Somaliland lied there peaceful and independent for 20 years and if one asks any Somalilander “what is preventing Somaliland from getting recognition?”, they wouldn’t say “it is a yet-to-come thing” because there were recent countries that got recognized soon after they got their independence, but they would all tell him/her, the wide accepted belief, that the reason for it is that it’s government is corrupted. And that is not true. Corruption exists in the recognized or the unrecognized regions in the world. It prevails from the G8 to the third world countries in the world. It is a language that all governments in the world today speak and we are neither on the A-list nor the Z-list. If it is it that that prevented us from getting recognition then why wouldn’t it harm the tongue of others also? Corruption isn’t the obstacle preventing Somaliland from recognition and of course the world is not giving it to us but that is not their fault. It is our fault!

It is our fault because we got so self(clan)-interested that we lost our capability to act as a group. We act solely so much to win something for ourselves or our clan that we lost our ability to get group-ish. Since we don’t have the ability to get group-ish, when we want something for a whole, like recognition for a country, we don’t get group-ish thus losing our significance and strength as a group and failing our common goal. A not-group can only become a group when they act as a group and until they got their goals fixed to a common direction, they will never reach their common goal. We are telling ourselves that we have a common goal when we are all running to different direction. We want to get recognized as a group when we are individuals and there are never a group of individuals. And another thing is that we say that we want recognition, but when the government goes to that direction, “we say that you don’t belong to us, we vote for you to care us and here you go ignoring us.” We think that if one cares for the whole country and not care only about us, he/she is looking after the other clans only. We say that it is either for us (the clan) or we don’t do it and by so dismissing anything common or failing to achieve it.