Comments on: Ethiopia http://www.owen.org Thoughts on development and beyond Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:50:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: just a comment http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/comment-page-1#comment-11467 just a comment Wed, 23 Mar 2011 01:20:30 +0000 http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/?page_id=2#comment-11467 Hi there, Just one comment. A small one perhaps for some but a big one for me. You call your blog "Thoughts from Owen in Africa". Well you are not in Africa. You are in Ethiopia. Maybe you should be specific. I am Zambian and I know very little about Ethiopia and you are closer to Italy than you are to my country. These are just my thoughts from the Pacific. I have not gotten any further with your blog than this title but I will try and find something positive to say as I don't want to come across as only negative about your blogging efforts! <em>Owen replies: a. You are right to complain about people generalising about 'Africa' b. Nonetheless, I am in Africa in Ethiopia c. Though I live in Ethiopia, I do go elsewhere. As it happens, at the moment I'm in Tanzania.</em> Hi there,

Just one comment. A small one perhaps for some but a big one for me.

You call your blog “Thoughts from Owen in Africa”. Well you are not in Africa. You are in Ethiopia. Maybe you should be specific. I am Zambian and I know very little about Ethiopia and you are closer to Italy than you are to my country.

These are just my thoughts from the Pacific.

I have not gotten any further with your blog than this title but I will try and find something positive to say as I don’t want to come across as only negative about your blogging efforts!

Owen replies:

a. You are right to complain about people generalising about ‘Africa’

b. Nonetheless, I am in Africa in Ethiopia

c. Though I live in Ethiopia, I do go elsewhere. As it happens, at the moment I’m in Tanzania.

]]> By: Deep Ethiopian http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/comment-page-1#comment-6810 Deep Ethiopian Thu, 27 May 2010 15:28:42 +0000 http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/?page_id=2#comment-6810 Nice to find an honest blogger. I'm sick and tired of pretentious tourists trying to explain us to the rest of the world. Cheers, mate! Nice to find an honest blogger. I’m sick and tired of pretentious tourists trying to explain us to the rest of the world.

Cheers, mate!

]]> By: (Not) about Ethiopian politics http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/comment-page-1#comment-6787 (Not) about Ethiopian politics Wed, 26 May 2010 14:54:32 +0000 http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/?page_id=2#comment-6787 [...] People sometimes ask me to write more about political situation in Ethiopia (eg in a comment yesterday on my website). [...] [...] People sometimes ask me to write more about political situation in Ethiopia (eg in a comment yesterday on my website). [...]

]]> By: James http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/comment-page-1#comment-6772 James Tue, 25 May 2010 20:48:03 +0000 http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/?page_id=2#comment-6772 Owen, Just wondering how you can manage to write a blog on development from Ethiopia without even mentioning the terrible contemporary political situation in the country? I guess your relationship with Ethiopia goes back some time, to the time of the Africa Commission at least... But really, living in the country as you now do, do you not even get some sense of the terrible frustrations of the Ethiopian people with the situation - with the west supporting a government that has next to no popular support and which has terrorised any opposition into submission. Birtukan Mideksa should be held in just as high a regard as Aung San Suu Kyi, and yet hardly anyone covers the story. You certainly don't mention any of this on your blog. Silence is sometimes complicity, don't you know? Unless, of course, you still buy hook line and sinker the government line. Development starts with having a sensibility about what is going on around you, and not to hide behind abstract discussions about the MDGs and the AAA.... Yours disappointedly, James M. P.S. perhaps a first start on the road to redemption would be to publish this comment! Owen,

Just wondering how you can manage to write a blog on development from Ethiopia without even mentioning the terrible contemporary political situation in the country? I guess your relationship with Ethiopia goes back some time, to the time of the Africa Commission at least…

But really, living in the country as you now do, do you not even get some sense of the terrible frustrations of the Ethiopian people with the situation – with the west supporting a government that has next to no popular support and which has terrorised any opposition into submission. Birtukan Mideksa should be held in just as high a regard as Aung San Suu Kyi, and yet hardly anyone covers the story. You certainly don’t mention any of this on your blog. Silence is sometimes complicity, don’t you know? Unless, of course, you still buy hook line and sinker the government line. Development starts with having a sensibility about what is going on around you, and not to hide behind abstract discussions about the MDGs and the AAA….
Yours disappointedly,
James M.

P.S. perhaps a first start on the road to redemption would be to publish this comment!

]]> By: przemek http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/comment-page-1#comment-5584 przemek Thu, 25 Feb 2010 11:53:30 +0000 http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/?page_id=2#comment-5584 what you think about pedophiles who work for Western Help Organisations in the 3rd world !!! You can't help For Ethiopians when u still think about your career !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The bes help to Africa is duty free trade <em>Owen replies: I agree that duty free, quota free access is very important. (Ethiopia already has duty free quota free access to all of Europe, of course, and makes precious little use of it.) If I was thinking about my career, I wouldn't be sitting here in Addis Ababa - I would be brown-nosing in my old comfortable civil service job. Please don't cast accusations about people whom you do not know. I'm against paedophiles too. Not sure that that has to do with anything.</em> what you think about pedophiles who work for Western Help Organisations in the 3rd world !!!
You can’t help For Ethiopians when u still think about your career !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The bes help to Africa is duty free trade

Owen replies: I agree that duty free, quota free access is very important. (Ethiopia already has duty free quota free access to all of Europe, of course, and makes precious little use of it.)

If I was thinking about my career, I wouldn’t be sitting here in Addis Ababa – I would be brown-nosing in my old comfortable civil service job. Please don’t cast accusations about people whom you do not know.

I’m against paedophiles too. Not sure that that has to do with anything.

]]> By: AK http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/comment-page-1#comment-5460 AK Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:07:26 +0000 http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/?page_id=2#comment-5460 @Faranji irish, you paid for a 1 month subscription and the unlimited evdo subscription is very expensive, you should have gone for the limited evdo subscription since 2gb per month for normal browsing is enough. @Faranji irish, you paid for a 1 month subscription and the unlimited evdo subscription is very expensive, you should have gone for the limited evdo subscription since 2gb per month for normal browsing is enough.

]]> By: Faranji irish http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/comment-page-1#comment-5363 Faranji irish Wed, 27 Jan 2010 21:16:32 +0000 http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/?page_id=2#comment-5363 hi i just bought the unlimited evdo subsciption ..in the belief that the cost covered me for a year. if it is just for one month ..i have been done badly. shocked hi

i just bought the unlimited evdo subsciption ..in the belief that the cost covered me for a year.

if it is just for one month ..i have been done badly.

shocked

]]> By: Alexander (Ethiopia-Map.com) http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/comment-page-1#comment-5074 Alexander (Ethiopia-Map.com) Wed, 06 Jan 2010 12:58:48 +0000 http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/?page_id=2#comment-5074 Wow - nice blog. Just bookmarked it :) Melkam Ethiopian Christmas! Alex Wow – nice blog. Just bookmarked it :)

Melkam Ethiopian Christmas!

Alex

]]> By: Anike http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/comment-page-1#comment-4168 Anike Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:44:04 +0000 http://www.owen.org/ethiopia/?page_id=2#comment-4168 Great resource. I would love to find something like this for Cameroon. Great resource. I would love to find something like this for Cameroon.

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