Ethiopian History: A Brief, Handy Guide to Fight Western Reporters' Ignorance

So much nonsense is repeated about the country and its past, we might as well have the responses ready to fire back.

Today, I read an article by Simon Vera for The New Humanitarian which brazenly claimed, “The Amhara have historically dominated economic, cultural, and political life in Ethiopia: Ethno-nationalists see their community as the embodiment of “Ethiopiannness.”

Besides the disingenuous slur of conflating Fano and Amhara advocates with “ethno-nationalists,” t…