Facts On Ethiopia

Nkomo legacy in crisis

People are always trying to look for a Saviour Figure in African politics. Joshua Nkomo was not the founding father of what you call liberation struggle - he was invited to lead by the likes of Chikerema, George Nyandoro and Edison Sithole. Don’t poison the young with lies. It would suffice to just mention Nkomo as one of the people who were involved in the scramble for power when Britain made it known that it was giving up overseas colonies nothing else. People are trying to embellish history. Nkomo emasculated Zapu from being a credible alternative to an appendage of Zanupf in 1987 when he signed the sell out Unity Accord. I was a member of Zapu from 1960 I am afraid Nkomo didn’t do much and have no idea why he is lionised at all. What a lot of nonsense! Don’t you ever talk of so-called liberation struggle, semi-educated and educated in one sentence. Without colonialism there would not be any education or semi-education to talk about. This to me is a contradiction - on one hand you want to praise so-called liberation struggle [which was nothing but a political power struggle] and then brag about Joshua Nkomo being educated but without colonialism Nkomo would have been another uneducated tribesman hunting and gathering. Many people forget that education was introduced to this part of the world by the colonialists. Joshua Nkom’s education was sponsored by a white woman, Mrs Hoskins, who employed him as part-time driver in S Africa. His parents worked for the London Missionary Society. Was also employed by Sir Donald Macintyre as a carpenter in Kezi and Tsholotsho. Worked for Rhodesia Railways. Influenced into politics by Enoch Dumbutshena in 1952. When Nkomo was running away from Zanu in the early 80s he passed through Botswana, an African country, to seek refuge in London, United Kingdom of all places. Nkomo emasculated Zapu as a credible opposition to Zanu by joining Zanu in 1987. Once again Nkomo was chosen leader, like Mugabe, for one reason and one reason only - some COLONIAL EDUCATION. There’s no way they would have been leaders without colonialism. At the advent of black nationalism in Rhodesia there was not a single black doctor, no single black mechanical, civil, electrical, architectural engineer, no single accountant, no single qualified electrician, no single qualified motor mechanic, no single dentist and many other professions which make a country function.

Interesting Facts about Ethiopia – Trivia on the Firsts and the ...

Ethiopia and Ethiopians are mentioned in many ancient books. The Bible is one of them. Ethiopia or Ethiopians are mentioned around 40 times in it. It is one of the few countries that are mentioned in both the Bible and the Koran. It is a country where the indigenous people are Christians, Muslims and Jews live together. It was the first country where Muslim prayers were held out of Arabia. Incidentally the first Muslim calls to prayer were done by an Ethiopian. And the first mosque to be built outside of Arabia was the Al Nejashi mosque in northern Ethiopia. When Mohammed and his followers were persecuted, they found solace in Ethiopia. The very first and oldest illustrated book on Christianity is found in Ethiopia. This is in the form of a gospel that was written in 494 AD, colors and bindings still intact and was discovered in a monastery – ‘ The Garima Gospels ’. Abba Garima was a monk that arrived in Ethiopia from Constantinople in the fifth century; legend has it that he copied it in one day. Ethiopia has a long history of war, in  Homer’s ‘ The Iliad ’ in the Trojan War, Memnon was an Ethiopian king. Ethiopia and Ethiopians are also mentioned in his other book ‘ Odyssey ’. The ancient Greek love for the Ethiopians does not end there; another Ethiopian is in Greek astronomy too. According to legend, Cassiopeia was the queen and consort of King Cepheus in Ethiopia. And long story short, after her death, Cassiopeia was immortalized as a star by Poseidon. Ethiopia and Ethiopians are usually mentioned with the words ‘ athlete ’ and ‘ athletics ’. The first African to win a gold medal in the Olympics was Abebe Bikila in the 1960 Summer Olympic in Rome; he wan the marathon with a record time of 2:15:16.2 – an even amazing thing was the fact that he ran the whole race barefooted. In the next Olympics held in Tokyo in 1964, Abebe Bikila won the marathon with a world record time of 2:12:11:2.4. Making him the first athlete, and as of yet the only African, in history to win the marathon twice in back to back Olympics. As of date, the marathon world record holder is another amazing Ethiopian athlete, Haile Gebreselasie. He holds the record at 2:03:59. The Mountain Nyala and the Walia Ibex are the two most famous animals that are endemic to Ethiopia.

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Ethiopia

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Ethiopia at Bay, A Personal Account of the Haile Selassie Years

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