The biology professors at Addis Ababa University do not preach Darwin enough. And they believe in God. They aren't being PC, they really (I'm serious :) ) believe in God.

Throughout the country, for every child that goes to school, there are four others who don't. Most of our teachers subsist on low income. And are unhappy as a result. Teaching is not as prestigious as it once was. Consider this: some teachers in Addis Ababa get beat up by their students. Want more?

Advice for the student attending college in the holy land: think twice (think many times) before going on strike against college administrators: you may end up in jail. There are many things you are forgetting while protesting about the curriculum that's overdue for the dust bin.

Facts you should keep in mind: if you are 9, live in the outskirts of Konso, and lucky enough to attend school, chances are high you don't have a pen to write with. If you are 9, live in the outskirts of Konso and are a female member of the species, chances are even higher you aren't going to school. The point: as a school age child of Ethiopia, it's very likely that you are not going to school, don't know how to read and probably believe that the earth is flat. Well, you are in trouble when you don't have a pen, believe the earth to be flat and trust your biology professors when they say even Darwin himself was a creation of God. It's a real tragedy because no one is looking out for your mind, let alone the minds of your children. It's comical because this is supposed to be the age of science and you are still leading a medieval existence. Not by choice, but by accidents of history. On the other hand: you, the reader, went to school and were surprised by a few facts defying your common sense:

1 - the earth is not flat. It is round, like a ball
2 - what is housed in your skull is what you think with
3 - most of what is called you is water molecules If you also enjoyed studying, you may have found out while reading late at night that:
4 - you don't go to heaven after you die
5 - you don't go to hell either
6 - you are a result of some accident between a random sperm and a not so random egg and you will end up dust when you die. And that's fine.

Armed with such elaborate knowledge, you don't go to war when they ask you to. You sit and write about the war on email. You worry about what not to eat in case you become overweight and your lover abandons you. You worry too much about your lover. Period.

Relax. If you were in Minjar, going to school is easier than getting clean water to drink. And going to school is nearly impossible there. But you are not in Minjar. You are lucky! You drink clean water. Think about it. You may or may not have learned more about life whiling your time away between your lover's legs than you did in the classroom. Your philosophy of life may have been distorted as a result of the head to head encounter with the ideas in your first Robotics textbook (or fashion magazine, as the case may be). Why does it matter? Well because if you were Fisseha Eshetu, you would start your own, call it UNITY COLLEGE and with no need for a headhunter, get all the teachers at the 6 kilo campus to work for you at a higher demoz. Now I hope this is not triggering thought processes about your demoz in your head. You worry about yourself too much. Relax. You needs you. That's common sense. You will be with you until you die. Just forget you. Ethiopia needs you. She really does.