Seyoum Hameso and the Sidama Diaspora Intellectuals
American Chronicle, CA - Jun 5, 2007
Although small in numbers, the African Nation of the Sidamas features some of the most perspicacious and sagacious intellectuals of the Black Continent. Either close to the authentic source of Wisdom, the Old Sidama Land that currently bears evidence to the barbaric Abyssinian cruelty, or dispersed in the four corners of the planet, among their Diaspora, Sidama Intellectuals through books, websites, articles, speeches and conferences remind to all of us that in the southernmost confines of the Abyssinian Hell, we can still find a Shelter of Humanity and Noblesse. The landlocked nation, confined among the Oromos, Kenya and Sudan, outnumbers many European countries in terms of population.
The entire world will be a richer and fairer place, if the Sidamas have their own representative in the African Union and the United Nations. To rediscover the most original noblesse of Africa and the Sidama world that livs among us in the West, we should go through the excellent paper of the illustrious Sidama intellectual, Mr. Seyoum Hameso, and encounter the Sidama Diaspora and their peaceful national and cultural endeavours. We reproduce here Mr. Hameso’s paper integrally ...