Why is Ethiopia poor?

Because we majority Ethiopians don't like to be told the reality. We hate people who are telling us to move from our poverty "comfort zone".

We don't like to be told by others that Ethiopia is the poorest country in the whole world, but we would like to hear that we have a beautiful land.

We don't like to be told by others that we have thousands homeless people on the street, but we rather would like to hear that we've got Lalibela and Axum and others ancient buildings.

We don't like to be told by others that we have the worst social infrastructure in place such as stinky hospitals and crumbling public schools, but we would like to hear that Addis Ababa, Ethiopia is the headquarter for OAU and talk about our new circumferential (beltway) highway.

We don't like to be told by others that access to water supply and sanitation in Ethiopia is amongst the lowest in Sub-Saharan Africa and the entire world, but we love to hear that Ethiopia is one of the leading country by ground water resource in Africa.

We would like to hear that Abebe Biqilaa was a double Olympic marathon champion from Ethiopia, most famous for winning a marathon gold medal in the 1960 Summer Olympics while running barefoot, but we don't like to be reminded that since 1960 we still have millions of people who doesn't afford to buy a shoe and walk barefoot each day.

We have a stadium in Addis Ababa is named in his honor, but we don't have a local brand shoe named after his name to honour millions.

We don't like to be told us by others that our maternal mortality rate, kids who died because lacking of food also people with disabilities and older people who passed away each year simply because they don't have the health care and home care access, but we would love to hear the battle of Adwa and how we kicked and killed Italians. However, after the war, I've never heard of one single Italian who immigrate to Ethiopia seeking a better life, but currently more than 30,000 Ethiopian immigrant lives in Italy!

We won the battle, but we lost the war!!!

This is the result of our ignorance and Ignorance is a choice!