Thinking of Birtukan Mideksa, Ethiopia's Spiritual warrior and...

Thinking of Birutkan Mideksa, Ethiopia’s Spiritual
warrior and Communicative Rationalist.

09 December, 2010 | By Teodros Kiros (Ph.D)

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Gone are the days of life in the

beauty of

darkness and the cruelty

solitude

imagined her, pensive,

still and

determined to live; I

imagined her

behind

rusty prison

rails thinking about the

millions of

Ethiopians gazing at

stars

and

praying to the transcendent; I

imagined

her drinking water and

breathing air and thanking the loving God

for keeping her alive; I

imagined her

extending her contagious smile to the

prison guards

who kept their eyes on her;

I imagined her taking notes in her heart for a future masterpiece that
she will present to the Ethiopian people.

I cannot stop imagining her now, now that she is in the sunlight of
freedom wrapped by the adoring hands of the Ethiopian public,
most particularly the members of her generation.

Birukan, the queen of justice, as I called her, when she was in
prison, is now the queen of silent justice outside of prison.

I now imagine her in the company of her loving mother and joyous
daughter drinking from the fountain of freedom; I imagine her
waking to the sound of trees, the music of birds and the voices of
the millions of Ethiopians who secretly adore her; I imagine millions
of Ethiopian women admiring her defiance and her intelligence; I
imagine all those parents who will one day name their children after
Birtukan, the eloquent tribune of deliberative democracy.

When the dawn of genuine freedom reins in Ethiopia, Birtukan will
use her spirituality, always mediated through that embracing smile,
which takes in the hearts of the Ethiopian public, yearning for
freedom, to guide the Ethiopian nation through the sheer force of
loving-kindness. This spirituality will work in concert with her fine
legal mind, and be articulated via communicative rationality and
emerge as the leader of a people’s party, which I would like to
call, Ethiopianity.

How honored I would be if the Transcendent would preserve me to
work for Birtukan Mideska, as the new voice of Ethiopianity and
the leader of the people’s party, Ethiopianity.

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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