ስለ ሽ ብር ዕወቅት

ስለ ሽ ብር ዕወቅት (1

፨

ተቀኝታ  ነበር አፍቃሪ ላፍቃሪው

ስለ ዕውሩ ፍቅር ስለሚጋርደው፦

"  ዓይን የተፈጠረው ሁሉን ለማየት ነው

አንተን አይቶ ሌላ አላይ አለ ምነው! "

እሱዋስ አፍቃሪ  ናት

ፍቅር ያሳበዳት

ምርምር መገንዘብ  ዕውቀት የከጀላት

ሽብር የ ፈጠራት

ፍቅር ያሳበዳት፤

አላወቀች ዛሬ መከልከሉን ማየት።

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እንደ ንገሩማ   ዕ ው ቀ ት  የግል ና ት፦

ብትሰማ ም    ባትሰማ ም     አል ሰ ሜ ን   ንገርዋት፤

ኣንድም ሶስትም ይኩን ፦የ መ ሆ ን  ምርጫ አላት፤

ብት ሰ ማ ም    ባት ሰ ማ ም     አል ሰ ሜ ን   ንገርዋት፤

የፍቅር  ቅኝቱ  ላልተገለጸላት ፨

 ሀ/ አሃዱ በግዕዝ -  ካልደፈረ ፦   ሰማ፤

መች ይሻዋል ጥራት፤

መች ይመኛል ብቃት፤

ሁ/ ሲክተል በካብዕ  አ - ካል   ደ ፈ ረ ፦    ሰ  ማ፤

መች ይሻዋል ጥራት፤

መች አነሰው ብቃት፤

ሂ/ ሲያበቃው በሳድስ -  ካልደፈረሰማ፦

መች ይሻዋል ጥራት፤

በድካም ነው ብቃት፤

ንጉሥ ትመርቂ ፦ ወደሽ ነው ኮማሪት፤
አንቺም እሱም እስዋም፦

--እኔም እኒያም ሁሉም፤

-- የወዲያው ቀርቶብሽ፦

ለዚህ የበቃችሁት!

ህግዋ ነው  የፍጥረት፤

ሽ ብ ር   ነ ው   ፈ  ጣ  ሪ ፦ አ ሸ ብ ሮ   ፍ ጥ ረ ት!

አሽብሮ አሸብሮ፦ አሸ ብሮ ብቃት!

(! ቅኝት ለቀጠለው፦ ሽብር - አሸ ብሮ ና አሸብሮ - ያሸበርቃል / አሸበረቀ  ይሆ ናል!  ለልፈለገው ሽ-ህ-ብር ይሸ ብራ ል አሸብሮ ይቀራል !)

1)      I take Chaos“  for  the correct translation of  “Shibir“ - ሽ ብ ር

ሽብር ፈጣሪ ናት - "Shibir Fetari nat"

ሽብር ፈጣሪ ናት
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"ዓይን የተፈጠረው ሁሉን ለማየት ነው

አንተን አይቶ ሌላ አላይ አለ ምነው?"

ትቀኘው ነበረ አፍቃሪ ላፍቃሪው

ስለ ዕውሩ ፍቅር ስለሚጋርደው

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እሱዋስ አፍቃሪ ናት

ፍቅር ያሳበዳት

ምርምር መገንዘብ ማወቅ የከጀላት

ሽብር ፈጣሪ ናት

ፍቅር ያሳበዳት።

እንደ ንገሩማ፦

ብትሰማም ባትሰማም አልሰሜን ንገርዋት

ያ ል ደ ፈ ረ  ሰ ማ  መች ይሻዋል ጥራት

ንጉሥ ትመርቂ ወደሽ ነው ኮማሪት 
አንቺም እሱም እስዋም፦ --እኔም እኒያም ሁሉም፤-- የወዲያው ቀርቶብሽ፦ ለዚህ የበቃችሁት!

ህግዋ ነው  የፍጥረት፤  ሽ   ብ   ር    ነ ው   ፈ  ጣ  ሪ ፤  አሸብሮ ፍጥረት! 

Read more:
http://berhane-hiywot.blogspot.com/2011/07/normal-0-21-false-false-false-de-x-none.html

ታላቅ ሰው ነበረ

አይ ለዛ አይ ፈገግታ

        አይ ሃገር አይ ትዝታ

               አይ ታሪክ ፦ በውብ ድምጽ  - ስክስታ

....                ውበት ባህል ሁኝ፦ነይልኝ ነይ - የልብ ትርታ።

CHANGE

CHANGE
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The discourse at the site, 

http://www.berghof-handbook.net/

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A case in point:

Conflict, Social Change and

Conflict Resolution. An Enquiry.

By

Christopher R. Mitchell

To read all or download:

http://www.berghof-handbook.net/documents/publications/dialogue5_mitchell_lead-1.pdf

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gives us an idea, not only in retrospect (to learn from past social & particular experience) but also for the future, how conflicts in political aspirations as well as social dynamics can as well be exploited, controlled and directed by “intelligence” and power agents; while political forces are mostly blindfolded to be simplistically  engaged in the “presumed” promotions of their “political or national objectives”; whatever welfare that may follow or how far it may be meant good.

A hard fact suggesting that today in any political activity with a noble cause  (the good will is by far NOT sufficient at all), A SOLID" LEADERSHIP” with all facets of maturity and professionalism combined with social expertise, is the most important component of  the dynamics and products of change – change with far-reaching substantial and historical significance! Otherwise any movement signifying some characteristics of “change” may just be a playing object of alien forces employed counter to the objectives of the initials of the substantial change anticipated.

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See several papers on the link, to be aware of the substance and employ it in your favor. I.e. Ethiopia!

http://www.berghof-handbook.net/all

More on the theme: To understand the process of the past (how the invisible hand ransacked our political process) or contemplate and anticipate the future with awareness to do it better, the follwing paper / you can get hold of the book if you want/  is by all means worth an attentive reading :

http://www.systemicpeace.org/twwchp3.pdf

Synopsis of the book, by the author:
Third World War
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
© 1999
ISBN: 0847693481
328 pages
by Monty G. Marshall

http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/publications/publication.asp?pubType=book&id=12

By romanticizing the Cold War as a "long peace," we lose perspective on the full range of conflict dynamics that engulfed the lives and livelihoods of people in the Third World. Episodes of violence and human suffering have increased and spread, encompassing ever more states and social groups. Many regions have seen such a serious deterioration of conditions that "normal" politics are clearly impossible. "Third World War" examines the patterns of political violence throughout the world during the Cold War and analyzes them collectively as conflict processes within the global system. It shows that warfare was not randomly distributed, but was centered on six protracted conflict regions that together accounted for 80 to 90 percent of all forms of political violence during that time--a magnitude of violence that rivals the destruction of the previous two world wars. Through societal theories of identity, conflict, and development dynamics, supported by a broad range of quantitative evidence, the author explores how armed conflict and the politics of insecurity lead to policy changes, arrested development, and, ultimately, state failure. He concludes with policy implications and a brief assessment of the prospects for peace in the global system

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Public electronic copy of the book on  Internet:
http://www.systemicpeace.org/csptww.htm
 
"This Web page provides access to an electronic copy of the book Third World War: System, Process, and Conflict Dynamics by Monty G. Marshall (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1999). The several Adobe Acrobat files listed in the table below provide exact reproductions of the original published text and are citeable as they stand. The book contains a systems analysis of violent conflict within the dynamic context of societal-systems development and the diffusion of insecurity through complex societal networks. The "third world war" is the most recent of the global systemic wars of the twentieth century that have characterized the deconstruction and transformation of the Euro-centric "colonial" global system in the age of complex technological systems, mass communication, and open information. The "Third Word war" plagues the newly independent states of the Third World as they struggle to establish modern, central authority and guide their societies, distorted by years, decades, and, even, centuries of foreign domination, through the enormous challenges and pressures of the Cold War and Globalization Eras. The wars in the Third World are largely domestic conflicts fought primarily by amatuers. The book theorizes a syndrome of pervasive insecurity and arrested development; it documents and explains the spatial patterns of protracted political violence in the aftermath of the Second World War; a period of steadily increasing magnitudes of violence, state failures, and humanitarian crises leading to the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the Globalization Era. Click on the links in the left-hand column in the table below to view or download individual chapters and supporting documents in PDF format; files are readable in Adobe Acrobat Reader." (My emphasis).
http://www.systemicpeace.org/csptww.htm

The SEEDs of Hope....

The SEEDs of Hope in the Ethiopian Diaspora

By Alemayehu G. Mariam | June 6, 2011

...
A long time ago, we in the older generation started out on the road to idealism, but somewhere along the way we took a detour to a destination called realism. There we began to worship at the altar of greed, power, wealth, fame and the rest of it. When our realism ultimately proved disappointing, we became cynical and concluded that in a dog-eat-dog world, only the strong survive. We became self-centered and indifferent to the suffering of the weak and defenseless, turned a blind eye to their plight, a deaf ear to their pained cries and muted our lips to the injustices inflicted upon them by the powerful.
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Read more:

http://www.ethiomedia.com/andnen/2568.html

የመልስ ጋጋታ፤ የዜና ፋብሪካ

የመልስ ጋጋታ፤ የወሬ፦የዜና ፋብሪካ፤   

ሰሞኑን በዛብን፤  ኧረ ምነው ፈካ! 

ዳቦ አይሆን ነገሩ፤ አይተካ ዶላሩን፦

ለክፉ ቀን ብሎ ፦ የ ኮ በ ለ ለ ው ን! 

እንዳባይ ወንዝ ውሃ ያልተገደበውን፦

ላገር ብልጥግና አልሆንም ያለውን።

በላይ በላዩ የወሬ ጉርሻ

ለምን ይሆን፦ ለችግር ቅርሻ

በላይ በላዩ ዛቻ

ለምን ይሆን ፤ መሰንበቻ

ነዋይ ሥልጣን ፦ ማከማቻ

 -ኤርትራን እወራለሁ

-አባይን ገድባለሁ

-ግብጥን ነክሻለሁ

-ሱዳን እሄዳለሁ

      ሰላም መጥናለሁ

-ሱማሌ  እቆያለሁ።

-ዋጋ  መቆ ጣጠር
ትቻለሁ ፡ ለቃለሁ

-ካቶሊክ ሆኛለሁ ፤ 

ነጋዴ አግብቼያለሁ

- ይቅርታ ብያለሁ፤

ደርግን እፈታለሁ።

 (ይኀ  ሁሉ፤)

እንዳንረሳሳ ፡ ጅራፍ እባላለሁ

ገርፌ ጮሃለሁ፤
ብሬን አሸሻለሁ፡
ዋ  ብቻ ብያለሁ፤
ቀልቤን እንዳትገፉ፦ ሃብቴን እንዳትነኩ
ባህር ማዶ ያለውን፤ በየፈረንጅ ባንኩ።

(ላለ ማለት  ሽር ጉዱ!)

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ሌቱ እስኪነጋ ለት

ቀን እስኪወጣ ለት

ያገሬ ሰው እንደሁ

ተኝ ሲሉት ተኛለሁ

ቁም ሲሉት ቆማለሁ።

እኔ ግን እነሁ

አድንቁ ይግረማችሁ  ፤

ቀኔ የሞላ ለት

 ክጫካ ወጥቼ፤

አሜሪካን ወዶኝ

እንግሊዝ ዶልቼ፤

ከተማ ገብቼ፦

ሙሉ ሃያ ዓመት ገዛሁኝ

የምሥራች በሉኝ።

ነገም ዛሬም እኔ ፤ አርባ እሞ ላለሁ፤

እከርማለሁ ገና  ከንጉሥ እበልጣለሁ፤

ቤን አሊ ጋዳፌ ሙባረክ አይደለሁ

ባስራ ሁለት ቢላ መብላት ተክኛለሁ።

እንደኔ ዓይነት ምላስ፤ 

                     ከሰንበር የሚለይ

ባሳብ በትካዜ፤

ባገር በወንዜም ላይ፤

                ኣንድም ቀን አይታይ፤

መለስ ዘና ዘና፤ ደሞም፤

ካስፈለገም

የሚል ቆጣ ቆጣ ፦

የሚያስደነግጥም በጣቶች ቆረጣ፤

                   ሃያ ምላስ አለኝ

በመላው አፍሪቃ፤

                ፍጡም ወደር የለኝ።

ለሁሉም መልስ ያለው፤

                         መለስ እባላለሁ

ባባቴ ዜናዊ ፤ 

የዜና ፋብሪካ፦ 

                      ወሬ እወልዳለሁ

ዕጡብ ድንቅ በሉኝ፤ 

                           ዘላለም ኖራ ለ ሁ።

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የመልስ ጋጋታ፤ የወሬ፦የዜና ፋብሪካ፤   

ሰሞኑን በዛብን፤  ኧረ ምነው ፈካ! 

ዳቦ አይሆን ነገሩ፤ አይተካ ዶላሩን፦

ለክፉ ቀን ብሎ ፦ የ ኮ በ ለ ለ ው ን! 

እንዳባይ ወንዝ ውሃ ያልተገደበውን፦

ላገር ብልጥግና አልሆንም ያለውን። 

በላይ በላዩ የወሬ ጉርሻ

ለምን ይሆን፦ ለችግር ቅርሻ

በላይ በላዩ ዛቻ

ለምን ይሆን ፤ መሰንበቻ

ነዋይ ሥልጣን ፦ ማከማቻ

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ሞልትዋል፤ተትረፍርፍዋል፤

ይቀጥላል ገና

የ መለስ፦ የመልስ ጋጋታ-- የፋብሪካ ዜና።

“Beka!” (“enough”). Will Ethiopia be next? | Addis Neger

“Beka!” (“enough”). Will Ethiopia be next? | Addis Neger

René Lefort
Meles Zenawi has been protecting himself from any Arab-spring copy-cat movements in Ethiopia. On balance, it is unlikely that the opposition is strong enough to mount the kind of challenge seen in Egypt and Tunisia. Conditions are not seen to be as brutally unjust in Ethiopia, and no one doubts that the army would be loyal to the Tigray-dominated regime. But there may be surprises yet.
Read More:
http://www.opendemocracy.net

The Paradigm for Africa and Ethiopia?

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Reproduced........for the 28th  May of 2010

From ......Friday, 08.08.2008

The Paradigm for Africa and Ethiopia? 

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Words of Emotion*

           

"Make it as simple as possible, but not less  simple" (Einstein)

"Oh," said the mouse, "the world is becoming tighter with each passing day. First, it was so wide that I was afraid.  I ran and ran on and was happy to finally find a wall in a distance. Left and right in the distance I saw the walls, but these long walls rush so quickly to each other that I already find myself in the last room, and there at an angle, is the trap in which I run."-

" You only have to change the direction, „said the cat and ate the rat. (Kafka fable…My translation; 1/)

OH! POOR AFRICA?

Lacks the State,
The “Stick and the Stock”?

The Paradigm,

The Shift and The Dead Ends

Oh! Tiny and Mighty!

Would you Change your mind?

1.    Social  

Change your mind

Challenge your head.

Don’t ache your head,

Don't break your heart,

If you still, feel the heat,

If you indeed hear the beat.

...

Tiny and mighty!

Aren’t  you happy!?TAKE A BREAK! And scream,You need a therapy!

...

Challenge your head,

You will get your bread.

Change your mind,

You will get your state,

You are now at stake.

If you have in mind,

The dead end and the rat

In the KAFKA FABLE (1),

The wall and the cat...

The cat, ... is just a cat

Not a friend not a rat.

It is good for the rat

Not to follow suite,

Not to consult the cat.

***Don’t ache your head,

Don't pose like a cat,

You can live like a rat,

If you are not a cat!

If you are not a rat, nor a cat,

Make a leap, take a ride,
You may not need a state,

Nor a shift, ...not a shit or a sheet!

Change your mind,

Challenge your head,

Mold your set.

Build your head,
Right and left, left and right

Build a mind, make a set;

The Dead Ends are your Heads

In your Heads,

THE DEAD ENDS ARE THE HEADS.

Not the STATE, nor the RENTS.

Soft is, ... the conflict,

The state and private.

Hard are the rocks,

Concrete, the cement, the matter,

The grey in your heads,

Need the shift.

2.    The  Human 

Change your mind

Challenge your head.

Don’t ache your head,

Don't break your heart,

If you still, feel the heat,

If you indeed hear the beat.

...

Tiny and mighty!

Aren’t you happy!?

TAKE A BREAK! And scream,You need a therapy!

...

Challenge your head,

You will get your bread.

Change your mind,

You will get your state,

You are now at stake.

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You may change,

The waters in the seas

A thousand, and a hundred times.

Never could a rock,

And a dead fish swim.The Shift, the Rift,...the Move,

And the PEACE you lack,

It's in your MIND.

Not the STATE,

The “Stick or the Stock”

YOU! You have to “develop”!

Make your mind,

Mold your set;

Build your head,

Right and left, left and right

Make a set.

Step ahead or backward

Ask the dead or the old,

The Antic, the Polis,

Your meta - the Physics,

Paradigm,

The maxim,

Is as old,... as Mankind.

And the DEAD ENDS,

Are your heads.

Africa, has a LOT,

Of your sort and your lots.

It is You, the DEAD ENDS,

THE DEAD HEADS.

Africa needs, not a shiftIn Para-DIGM,Is a shift and shuffle of your kinds,

That it lacks.For its peace, for its fate,

Rich in bread.

Healthy child, best mind...

Call it, if you like, Demo-Cracy,

But Attention! Demagogy,

 “Z” and “c”, Philology.

At times and History,

Demo-craCy goes craZy…

…

At such moments,

Stop TIME,

Go and Go ahead,

To the SOURCE....the best b-reed,

The Origin, the  best c-reed.

Change your mind

Challenge your head.Don’t hesitate,

Break your head,

Break your heart

You would have IT,

It is THE HEAT

A MOMENT  bit,

universal, AFRICAN BEAT.

3.   Cultural  

Change your mind

Challenge your head.

Don’t ache your head,

Don't break your heart,

If you still, feel the heat,

If you indeed hear the beat.

...

Tiny and mighty!

You aren’t happy!

TAKE A BREAK! And scream,

You need a therapy!

***

ENOUGH is Enough!

Call the spade by the name!

Let the cat be a cat!

Let the rat be a rat!

For a sufficient LIFE;

Like the Yin and Yang

In the Eastern Wisdom,

Like the Son and Father

In the Christian Faith,

Like the Star and the Moon,

In the Sufi mystics,

In the Muslim Belief.

If you are,

Neither Cat nor a Rat!

Make a leap take a ride!

Mold your lot, blend your set!

Change your mind!

Change your head!

Feel the Spirit!

Lest, You are NONE!

Or ‘Orbis’ and A MAN!

Of the laity....the clergy.

The Light, the sound or the beat.

It’s the moment TO BE,

At NO TIME, at a Point.

The Para- the Plasma-

The Laicus’ -COMMON SENSE.

THE SPACE, The quantum and,

The Para-SIGHT.

4.    Material   

Tiny and mighty,

You're not happy.

TAKE A BREAK! And scream,

You need a therapy!

***Sing…a Song….and

 scream…Hi Hi Loneliness!!!

Bye Bye Happiness!!!

So far, the lay,

It's Sell and lie, Lie and “Buy”

No SHIFT no HEAD,

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MAY DAY! MAY DAY!!

Poor Africa! Cry and Die!

You never know.....

May be......FLY

Maya ... F......L.......Y.....!? (2)

High,  Higher and High.

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And "ETHIOPIA" !!? 

Do You still sing and cry…….only cry?

…….08.08.08..… “WAAAAAAAI”  !

And ….AI !?

Always  I AI …

Nothing but WAI….and …. I.

5.   Spiritual   

Tiny and mighty!

TAKE A BREAK! And then scream,

You need a therapy!

The Greed or the Head,

Lacks the Remedy;

FROM THE ALMIGHTY?

OH NO! Tiny and Mighty!!

COME ON Move,

To the GOLDEN MEAN.

To Harmony,

To the cosmic,

The DIVINE Proportion,

THERE,

Is always sufficient room!

6.    The Absolute 

Change your mind,

Challenge your head;

“The TEACHER comes, only

When the Student is ready!” (3)

For a discourse – in common sense

Philosophy, the Therapy.

From the Laicus….to the Expert

Notes:

This piece, *Words of emotion” is a tiny expression of rage, in memory of the classical “Berekete Mergem”, which gave birth to “a generation of emotion”, in vain sacrificed and the African-Ethiopian lot still without its bread and appropriate head. It is conceived in the tradition of “Semina Work”.

The Kafka fable in the original German:

http://www.hekaya.de/txt.hx/kleine-fabel--fabel--kafka_1

 " »Ach«, sagte die Maus, »die Welt wird enger mit jedem Tag. Zuerst war sie so breit, dass ich Angst hatte, ich lief weiter und war glücklich, dass ich endlich rechts und links in der Ferne Mauern sah, aber diese langen Mauern eilen so schnell aufeinander zu, dass ich schon im letzten Zimmer bin, und dort im Winkel steht die Falle, in die ich laufe.« – »Du musst nur die Laufrichtung ändern«, sagte die Katze und fraß sie."

1)       The MAYA Calendar, which is referred to end on the 21. 12. 2012 is considered by astronomers and mystics to be a special date, when an extra ordinary celestial constellation would take place. “On the winter solstice in 2012, the sun will be aligned with the center of the Milky Way for the first time in about 26,000 years.” http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2007-03-27-maya-2012_n.htm

2)       “The Teacher comes only when the student is ready”; interpreted from… A Buddhist Proverb: “When the student is ready, the teacher will appear. ... meaning that “Peace and change come from within. Do not seek it without.”

TEZA made in Ethiopia & Herr Fischer made in Germany!

"Joschka und Herr Fischer" - The „Super-Model“ & TEZA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk4YML7d0G8&feature=player_embedded

These days one film, -Joschka and Herr Fischer- of the same category like TEZA is making such an audience in Germany, even before it comes to the public, rummaging around my emotions to force me to break my silence. In my opinion, TEZA makes a contrast to the former, quite in a fine manner, making somehow fool of us, Africans! The beautiful moving pictures, the nostalgic Ethiopian musical tones interacting with sound and scenery of the virgin country side of northern Ethiopia, accompanied by the impressive local actors (like the old mother), colored with the highly zoomed and dramatized urban story of the film, depicting some of the terrible days of Ethiopia during the last decades, cannot change the crux of the matter; I would say.

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THE POINT:

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“Joschka und Herr Fischer” vs "TEZA"

TEZA made in Ethiopia & Herr Fischer made in Germany!

It is a coincidence, without explanation, that I happened to see „TEZA" (a film by Haile Gerima) just a few days ago; a few years later after its production and the awards it collected at some festivals; while a new German documentary film coming soon, is being inaugurated. With "TEZA", now (May 2011) running in Berlin, these days the new documentary film of a similar category is making the headlines of the German film-public; beginning next week (19.05.2011), may-be awaiting its awards too! -Awards, it would certainly gather for the “objectively modulated” narratives of 60 years protest, which produced “poli-superstars” like Herr Fischer, the realist "rebel”(cf. Project Syndicate); depicting the substantial share the protest movement takes in the formation  and development of the post-modern German state. -The German post-modern state, which has sufficient room for its realist “rebels”, who would not mind turning unscrupulous, if need be, in the interest of their nations, to support any war resolutions of NATO and EU.

For me, an opportunity to think twice, to produce the following notion out of the backdrop of the mind: - I remember an age-old comment of a friend in this context. Some decades ago, fascinated by the help I got from some Germans abroad, while I was in a critical plight, I almost praised, "the Germans" in a nut shell to be the only "Engels on earth". But a sociologist friend of mine, who has enough experience in their community, countered vehemently saying "No! No!"; "the Germans are only shrewd enough to send their "Engels" abroad to work as "aid" workers and to engage their "devils" as immigration clerks."

  

This is true! The Germans are masters in subtlety and “functionalizing professions“!

Therefore, I said to myself, beware; simple and sweet "traditional" ideas of the film TEZA could have been undermined by the small capital of the donors! 

In spite of some well-meant cultural seeds (Ethio-North-centered), which TEZA tries to promote; I simply feel that "IT" has fallen in the “fate” of being undermined by the small "free" capital it managed to get for its production. In my perception, the film is full of caricatures and simple "parodies" on the "Ethiopian Revolution and social movements" of the last 3-4 decades, subtly suggesting "something" like "you would rather go back to your cultural roots" instead of ransacking your (the Ethiopian) community with "modern social notions, you would hardly understand", promoting the philosophical bias we know and established "western prejudices" about the "brutality „of "African origin"( ex. out of place and areal, like the victimized young mother, who killed her own illegitimate child in front of the landlord, who abused her !). 

Like most of the global protest movements of the period, given the “violent turn” the social movement took in its consummation, the film was intensively keen to demonstrate the brutality, the Ethiopian revolution contained. It has on the other hand clearly failed to show the social forces, relations and causes at work behind the phenomenon (for ex. Southern Ethiopia simply neglected in the narratives).

Moreover, for the critical mind, considering the perceived subtlety remaining in the mind of the observer, I am afraid "TEZA" has even failed to achieve its anticipated exposure of the „Western Racism" – abundantly alluded in the film, -one of the big objectives of the film; - let alone showing the extensive shortcomings and ideological blunders of the Ethiopian „leftist political movement", mostly lacking national touch in its application or the necessary embodiment of all the diverse cultural indigenous faces  Ethiopia could have provided.

***

To appreciate or understand this notion, after "TEZA", one has to see by all means the new German documentary film on the polit-star "Joschka and Herr Fischer", who is neither better nor worse than his "Ethiopian" companions. It is just unfortunate, that most of the "outstanding" ones of the latter, to make it better, have not survived their regimes or the violence they themselves promoted. Regimes and political environments, ransacked to go mad, not only due to indigenous "stupidity"/"Gedankenlosigkeit"(cf. H. Arendt)/ but also substantially influenced and destabilized through global policies made in the "WEST" or "EAST", in their bitter political game for global hegemony!

And "Herr Fischer", who has made it to the level of a higher political caliber, is being reinvented to be the "super-model" of the protest generation; while our TEZA is given the role of the blunt political "deconstruction" of modernity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwQxRkeypSk&feature=player_embedded#at=15

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ኤፍሬም ስዩም / EPHREM SEYOUM - A New NAME for Ethiopian Litreature...

For those of us who were so far limited to hailing, and sailing solely on none-Ethiopian celebrities of literature and poesy, I feel that Ephrem Seyoum, for sure, the would-be Ethiopian laureate of literature from the new generation is beginning to become a treasure, introducing us to the beauty of our own roots; - not only Ethiopian but an African intellectual treasure too! - A beautiful mind. How tedious and boring would nature be without such beautiful minds of humanity! – As far as I am concerned, I somehow feel rather pale that, this beautiful Mind came to my attention -"out of the blues", just only a few weeks ago, (via Luzyzare.com). Nonetheless, Thanks for the “back to the roots”!

Infatuated through his works, a vibrating poesy of music, colorful sound, word, tone and content - the ቅኔ/"qine" – yes ቆንጆ ወይን /“qonjo wein", interacting in an articulated air of harmony, I just humanly felt obliged to do some promotion via this blog– http://berhane-hiywot.blogspot.com/

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