We can lie to ourselves all we want for the sake political expediency, but the reification of ethnicity to the detriment of all other forms of social and political mobilization is at the root of most of our problems. #ProblemIsTyrannyNotEthnicity #Ethiopia

In fact, the very idea of a system that sanctifies ethnicity as the most legitimate mode of mobilization is not only unimaginative but also tyrannical itself.

By attempting to freeze in time and place what are essentially fluid and ever-changing expressions of identity, it has contributed to our polarisation, lack of empathy, and the alarming dehumanization of the ethnic 'other'.