10 Quick Facts About Ethiopia You Need To Know…
- Ethiopia is one of two countries in Africa that was never colonized by European powers during the scramble for Africa.
- Because Ethiopia was never colonized, it is largely untouched by Western influence and has preserved its cultures for thousands of years.
- Ethiopia is the only country in Africa that does not have a European language or Arabic as it’s official or business language.
- Ethiopia has eighty (80) different languages with their national language being Amaric.
- Ethiopia has its own alphabets which consist of two hundred and nine (209) symbols and twenty-five letter alpha-syllabary.
- Ethiopia has eighty (80) different ethnic groups with many of them having their own unique cultures and languages.
- Ethiopia doesn’t go by the Gregorian calendar which is used by most of the world instead, they have their own calendar which consists of thirteen (13) months and they celebrate their New Year not on January 1st but on September 11.
- Ethiopia is also, several years behind us. If it is year 2022 in the Western world, Ethiopia is in 2015.
- Also, time is counted differently there. Ethiopia measures time from when the Sun rises, so when it rises at 6:am on your watch, Ethiopian time is 12:am. Their time is counted six hours less than the time zone.
- Ethiopians have their own styles of traditional clothes, fashion, religions and hairstyles and they also have their own cuisines.
Now close your eyes and imagine the damage colonial religionists did to Africanity generally. For most adult Africans today, they have been indoctrinated all their lives, both by parents and clergy, to hate everything African. They have been taught all their lives that all African traditional beliefs have to be abolished and replaced with foreign ones before Africans can see God. It is a massive mental manacle that will require generational chain breakers to suffice.
Yours sincerely,
Citizen Agba Jalingo.
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