I have already covered the period 1886 -1974 in the previous article: “ Royal and Pharonic Pontifications and fabrications laid Bare”.īut as a prelude the theme of this article is to prove that no all-round, pure Amhara has ruled Ethiopia as claimed, and we were led to believe.Īll Ethiopian kings and emperors in the time period discussed, were either Oromos, half-Oromos with two Tigrayans, namely Emperor Yohannes and Sabagadis of Agame/Irob. For lack of time I will focus on the period from 1769 – 1974. I will leave aside battles, winners and losers and other aspects.īear with me and follow the discourse. In this article I will concentrate only on one aspect. The Amhara leaders mindset is dictated by solipsism, rivalry, internecine and epicaricacy. From the time of Zera-Sion starting 1275 the county saw nothing but plots, war, chaos and destruction.

Why then would one want to expose himself only to receive the bitter end of retributions? That was why intellectuals as well as material progress froze in the country for the last 700 years, with nothing to show off to the rest of the world as indeed the Aksumites and the Agew did in prehistoric periods. For a start, his research and documentation would not be published and taught in schools and higher institutes. No other historian or chronicler would dare to write and challenge the Amhara version of demography unless that person were out of his mind. But they have monopolised and controlled the state apparatus so only their version of history is written and told to subliminally manage to unfortunately gaslight a portion of the population to doubt its own identity and metastasise to believing they are Amharas indeed. That is one thing and the other like a fairy they project themselves and represent all people who live in the wider surrounds. The Amhara elite’s version of their self image is that they are here and everywhere at the same time. It is there at once, it isn’t there when you turn round. The ‘friar’s lantern’ is in fact an ignis fatuus, a spontaneous combustion of gas from decomposed organic material, a flitting phosphorescent light seen at night, chiefly over marshy ground. The rest is a fiction, a friars lantern, designed to help perpetuate their superiority over other nationalities who are kept tight under their thumb. They think the entire Wollo, Shewa, Gojjam, Begemeder, Raya, Western Tigray, Metekel, Welega, Harrier is Amhara land and of Amhara people.īut in reality Bete-Amharas, if there is such a thing, are a small tribal clan concentrated in the pocket of Shewa called Ankobor, nothing more a stiver. Now they are here, everywhere, now they are nowhere. The Amhara elites too are like the frairs’ lantern. I say fairies, because we were told by elders. Hard to believe, it appears a flame-game the fairies are having fun playing with. No sooner do you turn round, the flame is extinguished or has moved to other place. The flickering light now on, now off, displayed, making one wonder whether the fairies are having fun around a campfire otherwise who in his right mind would sit in such a place around a campfire, exposing themselves to jackals and hyenas, and asking for trouble at the time of a night! In the middle of the night, it is possible to see in the most inaccessible copped with foliage a hillside or on a top of a mountain.

Ras alula and mahdist