Habtamu Girma Demiessie
November 15 2019
Jigjiga, Ethiopia
State building is all about geographic integration. Nation building on the other hand is integration of diverse interests, value systems, identities, cultures,religious & belief systems.
In Ethiopia, state building project completed a century and half years ago, but the task of nation building did not followed. King Lij Eyasu has taken encouraging steps forward but was short lived.
The task of nation building has been either belittled or ignored altogether. Therefore, there has not been shared value system among wider populace. That is why polarized rhetorics dominating political discourses, risking the prospect of our togetherness under one flag, and impeding the making of Ethiopian State.
For Ethiopia, no way is as best as federal system. The nation building process should address diverse identities on virtues of ethno-linguistics, cultural, religious & belief systems, among others.
Any attempt in the realm of nation building process should do away with tools of state building, which integrates coercive moves with elements of negotiation.
As the process of nation building should give due regard to represent our differences, so does respect our shared elements that we have developed in plus century years old of our togetherness under same governments.
A newer Ethiopia should be one which is able & willing to entertain all voices and identities of communities across all corners.
In the process of building a nation, our generation has a historic responsibility of devising shared value system that subsequent generations would further enrich it.
Most importantly, the Ethiopian elites have to remember (understand) that Call for Unity doesn’t means call for unitary state.
Such is how we can build a prosperous Ethiopia.
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