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I'm not working on Ethiopia101 much, this site has some kind of identity crisis. Yes, each website has its own directions and if you let it grow "naturally" each page can find its own shape.
What is wrong with this one?
I left Haile Sellassie name aside deliberately, I thought that Ethiopia can be a big enough subject in itself. The country is the third in population in Africa, there is an ongoing war... plenty of topics for discussion.
Something was missing in Ethiopia without Haile Sellassie. First, the past. The link with the country's long history. Second, the future. Yes, sense of directions.
Let me explain it.
Today we live in condition of totalitarian democracy. We do not have statesmen anymore, our presidents are like us, mixture of flesh and weakness. They have no calling, leadership is just a job. We fear you, possessed souls.

Tafari was born in different era and he had his mission. There was Ethiopia's past, present and his vision for her future. When the rest of Africa was nothing but the colonies with their future shaped in capitals of Europe, he thought that Ethiopia through modernization can find its future and, yes, one day even compete with the great powers.

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There is one thing he didn't want to give up -- the past. Why would someone, who advocated the new technologies, try to keep this ancient stuff about Solomonic Dynasty or even Orthodoxy? He became a regent in 1917, when Russia crashed its past and even renamed herself! Look what wonders this "liberation" can do! If you want to welcome the future, forget the past!

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I call it Ethiopia101 because I wish that our websites could give a visitor enough information about the country to cover the basics. Ethiopia doesn't respresent the entire continent of Africa, but in many way it does represent its history.

What is Ethiopia's future? Poor or not Ethiopia was the star of Africa through the 20th century. The change came in the sixties.

He raised a generation. He educated them, he needed the leaders. They came from the universities of Europe and US... and they had their own vision of the future. They were radicals. Their modernization has no place for the past. They wanted it now and here.
They were no statesmen, they had no patience.

The third category -- Featured Website. Officially, Ethiopia101 was opened on Feb. 1, 1999 and you have a chance to be one the first to be featured. BTW, did you link yourself to our webwites? Please do. That's how people create Ethiopian Web on the Internet.
Oh! You don't have a website? Then Suite101 is the place to start; you'll have you place in cyber space in 30 minutes. Try it and see for yourself how useful and convinient it is!

I have to finish it later. Good night.

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