Who Should Read/Write on this Blog

This is the second post on this blog. In my first blog posting, I tried to set out the kinds of things we are interested to discuss: bringing about genuine, total and internal change in Ethiopia.

I mentioned that we should discuss how to bring about change in three arenas: political, economic, and social aspects of life in Ethiopia. Notice that the major theme of this blog is how to bring about change not whether change is necessary or not. If you are someone who is not convinced that there is any need for political, social or economic change in Ethiopia, please do not waste your time by reading or commenting on this blog. Go read the many web sites and blogs out there busy composing a countless list of the ills in our country.

If you are already convinced that change has been overdue for a long time in Ethiopia and you are tired of consuming a long and daily list of human rights abuses of the EPRDF government in power in Ethiopia, its incompetence to bring about economic change and various other ills in the social fabric of the country, this is your place to be.

But, remember this is not the place to just list our problems and blame someone for them. Shouldn't we go at least one step further than and suggest NEW solutions? Isn't it time to look at NEW ways of even the way we want to bring about change?

We want to bring about regime change or build democratic institutions in Ethiopia. How should we go about it? Aren't there ways of effecting this that hasn't been thought about before? The same applies to our economic as well as social problems.

Please discuss by joining this blog (on the bottom left of this page)or you can even make a video comment, post it on YouTube put it here (again on the bottom left of this page). Leaving a video comment will be a good way of expressing your ideas in Amharic with the added benefit of including visual data.