question for the diaspora and updates
Obviously you all have your different stories for being elsewhere besides here. And I can\'t really blame you. It\'s not \'easy living\' here and there are more comforts and opportunities outside of Ethiopia. But I want to know, why? Why, when you are educated and needed here, are you elsewhere?
Updates:
Blogger has seemingly been blocked - whether it\'s permanent or temporary, who knows?
The boyfriend and I are currently making plans for a vacation from life here. He got his visa, despite being a wanted man.
There have been no more bombings since last Friday. If bombs had gone off in Canada, you could bet all remnants would be immediately cleaned up and flowers left in its place. Here, people continue to walk passed the sprayed glass and broken concrete. I have to wonder if there\'s some blood still in places that never got washed away.
posted by ladystroll @ 6:49 p.m.
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I don't have green card.
http://yirga.baltiblogs.com/
Some questions back at you:
by your estimates, what is the the unemployment rate of western educated Ethiopians in Ethiopia?
Do you feel that there are positions which can be filled by educated people, but haven't been filled because educated Ethiopians have left the country?
Do you think that there is a lack of educated people in Ethiopia right now? Is it a lack of professionals or funding, or both?
IMO, perhaps the only institutions with funding that truly lack educated people are universities. And that's because the gov't fired a good percentage of the free-thinking crowd, from the uni president through deans and department heads ~10 years ago.
Well, what to do?
Hmm.
Don't know if you get notifications for comments this far back, but I was reading this article and it remineded me of your post. http://www.nai.uu.se/publications/download.html/9171065768.pdf?id=25184
Education is in fact a cursed (and quite useless) affair in Ethiopia. And if you look a little bit closer at the structure of the society, you'll notice that by educating so many students that never utilize their their (irrelevant) training, the country is laying the farmers' hard earned and paid tax money to waste.
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