Ethiopia; don’t forget your Archives are Africa’s too!
Ethiopia; don’t forget your Archives are Africa’s too! ---Tariku Abas- Etenesh---- When you hear some actions of some Ethiopian government agencies, you feel at a loss of context to conceptualize or understand them. Well let us try to understand one of such impossible-to-understand scenarios: Think of a scenario in an African country, deprived of its rights of access to archives by the former colonizer yet striving to secure access. A nation that realized such archives are not only instrumental in retelling the true cruel nature of the African colonial past but also for taking informed, legitimate steps towards correcting the wrongs of the past. Think of a nation like Kenya, where 40,000 Kenyans sued Britain for the brutality they suffered in British colonial detention camps based on documents in colonial archives; a nation like Namibia suing Germany for Germany’s genocide on the Herero people Namibia based on document in archives. Kenya and Namibia ...