Amoral & Asocial Act on Ethiopia!

A literature is as good as the values of its writer. A dictionary should be more than any other literature as it serves different generations just as the languages it defines. Shamelessly, however, the Oxford University Learners Dictionary writers used Ethiopia as an example to define the term ‘famine’. Was this dictionary intended to serve for a certain period of time?

Although famine was a real phenomenon in Ethiopia in a certain periods of time, it was, however, immoral and asocial for the writers of the dictionary to use ones pride country Ethiopia as the best example to define the term famine. It would be unrealistic to assume the writers as ones who don’t know Ethiopia as once a country of pristine kingdom and mighty. It is this country and its people that the dictionary writers used as an example to define famine. Is it not shameful?

Thanks to God and its developmental leaders that now Ethiopia is growing at a two digit growth rate and this is witnessed by external parties such as IMF, the World Bank and other international organizations. It would, therefore, be no value for the dictionary to define famine with Ethiopia as an example so long as relevant message cannot be conveyed to the generation today. Therefore, we Ethiopians kindly request the writers and publishers of the dictionary for the removal of the name Ethiopia from the so called dictionary in the context it has been used and I appreciate members of the NowPublic to voice loud against this amoral and asocial deed.