Revolution and Discipline in Egypt: A lesson for Ethiopians

Revolution and Discipline in Egypt; A lesson for
Ethiopians

3 February, 2011 | By Teodros Kiros (Ph.D)
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The peoples

revolution in Egypt

must succeed,

otherwise tyrants in

the region

are going

to feast and sharpen

their military

apparatus and jail

thousands of

those

who camped out on

the streets of the

great Cairo, home to

the pyramids and the great MAAT, queen of Justice.

I can imagine MAAT the queen of Truth praying for the protesters
to hold on to the last human being and fight for their rights, die for
the sake of creating a genuine moral economy that the Egyptian
people have not seen for the last thirty years; I imagine in own my
home land, the historic Ethiopia, the ruling regime strategizing in
smoke filled rooms, on how to squelch an eminent Ethiopian
uprising before it takes root; I imagine the tyranny’s think tanks
laughing at writings such as this and defaming any outputs from the
Diaspora as infective and idle.

We Ethiopians, however, must stand with the aspirations of the
heroic Egyptian people and support them in body and spirit. Their
struggles are our very own. Let us learn from their passions and
work for their success.

The revolution must succeed, as we too plan our own very soon,
with the backbone of our youth, our country dwellers, and those
millions of round Ethiopian eyes, impregnated with unshed tears of
poverty and hopelessness.

Our peaceful marches will drink from the winds of change and the
emergence of a genuine democracy for which millions of Ethiopians
are waiting.

Do not let the counter violence of a desperate Egyptian tyrant
intimidate you as you are thinking and planning to stage the peoples
uprising in our historic Ethiopia

In the mean time work on your souls and embark on a cultural
transformation, so that you can lead the people’s revolt, when it
unravels right in front of your eyes.

Pray that the Egyptian revolution succeeds.

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Teodros Kiros Professor of Philosophy and English (Liberal
Arts) Berklee College of Music is also a Senior Editor at Ethio
Quest News. His weekly column appears here