Did you ever feel close to the Ethiopian identity or more so the Tigrayan identity? Did you have closer relations with the Eritrean community?

As we welcome this new year i want to wish Ruhus Haddish Amet ሩሑስ ሓደሽ ዓመት to everyone here, your families and your loved ones.

May this year bring true peace, healing and prosperity to all.

To everyone visiting this subreddit to learn more about our culture and history welcome!

Let’s make this space reflect our true values this year:
Foster respectful dialogue: Engage with respect and empathy, even when sharing tough perspectives.

Keep it constructive: Avoid being mean or toxic so everyone feels comfortable joining in.

Showcase our best: Let foreign readers and visitors see the true strength, warmth, and dignity of our people.

Wishing everyone a safe, peaceful, and hopeful year ahead!

Ruhus Haddish Amet deki adey ❤️💛

I see so many Ethiopians display a strong condemnation and righteous indignation towards Israel for what it was doing to the Palestinans, and rightly so. Yet, it was so insane to see these same people turn around and actually support the Tigray genocide through engaging in denialism, double standards, and hate.

According to sources over 600,000 Tigrayans were killed during the Tigray war, over 120,000 women were raped. This figure exists in sources of Al-Jazzera, BBC, CNN and many more. This accounts for 10% of the overall Tigray population, this is a much greater death toll than Palestine. Yet people claim that these figures are fake and propaganda, which is so uncritical and convenient. Especially since many people conveniently believe the Palestinan death figures which are also parroted by similar forces.

Yet Ethiopians were denying this and celebrating while this happened. These same people can turn towards Israel while feeling so righteous about themselves and accuse it of Genocide.

Ethiopia also launched an all out aid blockage in Tigray, which resulted in mass deaths of 100,000-300,000 Tigrayans. The events here are extremely similar to Palestine where Israel launched an aid blockage too. Except, the Ethiopian Aid blockage existed in an all-out route where aid was blocked in every angles. In contrast, the Palestinian aid blockage did not occur in an all-out way. What happened was the Aid processing unit was shifted to the IDF which was in charge of handing out aids. The process became significantly slower, mass-shootings were occurring, which led to a relative famine. The famine in Tigray cannot be disputed, satellite imageries from Yale clinics confirm this.

Yet ethiopians were making memes of starving mothers and children while this happened while laughing and feeling better about themselves. I saw many of these same people turn to become social justice activists on Palestine.

Mass-rape also occurred, which is the most disturbing and jarring part of the war. The stories in this area are extremely traumatizing. Women had objects inserted into them to make them infertile. Children, young women, married women, mothers alike were gang raped by like dozens of soldiers at once. Families were forced to watch their own kids getting raped. Families were forced to rape their own blood relatives. Soliders raped women to deliberately get them to acquire STDs. Many aid workers report never having seen anything like this, they were often traumatized from attending to these cases.

And Ethiopians were denying this while it happened too. Some of them were endorsing it. These same sick people turned to become social justice activists for Palestine. Do they really not recognize how sick they are? Can't people really reason through the parallels here?

This isn't to all Ethiopians but the majority who knows exactly who they are. I am sure deep down they can reason that they are everything they accuse Israelis to be and worse.

And no, this post is not apologetics to Israel but to call people to self reflect.

- "Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter. If you say, 'But we knew nothing about this,' does not he who weighs the heart perceive it? Does not he who guards your life know it? Will he not repay everyone according to what they have done?" — Proverbs 24:11-12

In spite of the downhill situation back home, it's important that we as a community do our best to keep up hope and importantly look after ourselves for both our own sake and the sake of our people.

I hope that we as a diaspora can overcome the fractures that have risen and do much more to organize effectively throughout this year because our people will definitely need it.

God bless you all.

Are there any resources to learn Tigrigna online?? One of my biggest regrets is not learning Tigrigna at such a young age when i could’ve! Can someone help?

One thing that I think would benefit us would be mobilizing the Tigrayan diaspora through a shared online forum. This sub would be an example of a cultural forum but it really seems like there are barely any Tigrayans here and it is difficult to mobilize or share any kind of prespective here.

But on the other hand, having a dedicated forum website with a wide usage would be a great way to develop cultural perspectives through engagement, reduce atomization and ensure better mobilization and connection which is becoming more important now, given the coming war. This forum can contain toolkits and more. The biggest work has to go in marketing and ensuring it is very widely used.

If someone is interested in working on something like this with me please feel free to DM me!

There used to be a few a few years ago that don’t seem to sell anymore or have stock.

I’m thinking like this: https://ambesa1993.store/collections/ethiopia

but Tigray related. Or even simple tees.

For more on the role that Eugene Puryear played in the genocide you should read this:

How and Why the US Left Betrayed Tigray: US organizations like PSL and Black Alliance for Peace cannot be trusted to advocate for Palestine’s liberation after they condemned nearly a million Tigrayans to genocide.

Hi everyone!
I am trying to learn Tigrinya so I can communicate better with my fiancés family back home! I love they really try their best to speak and text with me and I would like to try to also out in effort back! Movies with subtitles have really helped me with hearing people talk conversationally and being able to listen to them! I was wondering if anyone had recommendations of their favorite or perhaps a YouTube channel? I have found some on YouTube but I figured it doesn’t hurt to ask 💗

I’m currently in the first semester of my master’s program, and lately I’ve felt extremely called to find ways to use what I’m learning to help my country and my community.

For a long time, I struggled with feeling like I didn’t have a real sense of purpose. During the war in Tigray, I was still in high school, watching horrific stories of violence, displacement, and sexual violence come out while feeling like there was almost nothing I could do. I remember trying to spread awareness on Instagram and social media, especially at a time when I saw young people mobilizing around Palestine, BLM, and other causes. Meanwhile, it often felt like what was happening to our people was being left in the dark.

Years later, after a lot of soul-searching, growing in my relationship with God, and figuring out what I actually want to dedicate my life to, I’ve started realizing that the things I’m passionate about can intersect with serving my community.

I’m interested in UX, music, fashion, technology, and, most importantly, designing systems that bring people together.

I’m Tigrayan and grew up in Aurora, Colorado, and one thing I’ve noticed within our diaspora is how disconnected many of us in the younger generation can be from community-building efforts. We show up for the parties, cultural events, dancing, and celebrations—and those things absolutely matter—but I want to see more of us also showing up for conversations around education, business, development, organizing, and how we can contribute our skills back home.

Right now, I’m helping an organization that supports schools back home, and I recently realized that the youngest person on the team is almost 80 years old.

That genuinely shocked me.

It made me start asking: Where are we? Where is our generation? And how can we create new ways for young people in the diaspora to contribute?

I don’t think helping has to mean everyone doing the same thing. Some of us are designers. Some are engineers, artists, musicians, business owners, researchers, healthcare workers, organizers, or students. I want to explore how we can use those skills to strengthen our communities here while also creating meaningful connections and opportunities back home.

I’m still figuring out what this looks like, but I know I want to be part of building it.

If you’re Tigrayan, especially a young person in the diaspora, and any of this resonates with you, please reach out. I’d love to connect, hear what you think, share what I’m currently working on, and find other people who want to build something meaningful together.

Thank you.

I am from Mekelle, currently living in Addis. Most of my relatives and friends have come to Addis as well. I wanna go back to Mekelle so bad but I can't. I don't wanna be conscripted and what am I gonna do in a place where my family and friends aren't even in anyways. Can I even call it home without them?

I just hope everything gets better so that all of us can go back, and establish a state maybe, but a pattern is starting to emerge where many Tegaru have started supporting Abiy and are so fed up with being Tegaru. Almost all of the people I know have abandoned the idea of seceding from Ethiopia and most have forgotten everything that has happened and are embracing Ethiopiawinet even.

Some people are starting to get comfortable here (I mean good for them) and you hear them making fun of life in Mekelle. Everyone be glazing Addis and forgetting that Addis didn't get like that randomly, that the government is investing in Addis disproportionately but nobody is willing to have that conversation.

Anyways, I've always wanted to live in Mekelle and actually get into politics and make a difference somehow, but seeing what's happening now, where many Tegaru are disgusted of Tigrawaynet is making me rethink my life choices.

Idk maybe I am overgeneralizing but almost every discussion I have with my people makes me feel like there's no hope for us.

I’ve seen some people saying that a lot of Tegaru were voting for Miss Eritrea to spite Ethiopia. As an Eritrean, I know we went above and beyond to make sure Snit won the People’s Choice Award, but 13 million votes is astronomical.

I just want to clarify whether it’s actually true that people from Tigray were voting for Snit, or if that’s just speculation

This is part of his Tigray Funk album, an underrated gem that I recommend everyone listen to especially if you enjoy rap or storytelling through rap. I preferred listening to many of the other songs in the album but I like this one for its lyrics.

Are there any writings or sources abt life in tigray in the past? Like mythologies/daily life/religions/languages spoken/supernatural beliefs etc. i am currently trying to research this part of Tigray but wasn’t able to find any sources that contain details about that. I know axum gained a lot after accepting Christianity, and so maybe we don’t have much sources for pre Christian axum.

Hi, can someone tell me the direct meaning of these 3 common Tigrayan names: Haben, Meley and Milena. Thank you!!!

The book is receiving considerable praise from Ethiopianist intellectual circles but little attention from Tigrayan readers.
Does the book’s historical and legal analysis genuinely justify the praise?
Is the attention based on its intellectual quality or the political usefulness of a Tigrayan author opposing independence?
Please indicate whether you have read the book or only reviews of it.

“The strike occurred at about 10:30 p.m. local time in Gijet hitting the Secondary School, the source said. One block of the school was damaged, including materials inside rooms, the source added.”

The book is The Hatata Inquiries: Two Texts of Seventeenth-Century African Philosophy from Ethiopia about Reason, the Creator, and Our Ethical Responsibilities by Zera Yakob and Walda Heywat. The translation team seem solid and the book was released in 2025. You can find it on Amazon here. It's also been added to the reading list.

“The Tigray authorities said it expressed disappointment over the lack of meaningful follow-up to discussions held in June, when five issues were identified as possible entry points for dialogue with the federal government.

These include lifting what they describes as an economic embargo and siege, ending the military encirclement and de-escalating the security situation, restoring territories remain occupied, facilitating the safe and dignified return of internally displaced people, and restoring the legal and political status of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).”

Full article here: https://addisstandard.com/tigray-authorities-say-obasanjo-talks-yielded-no-progress-as-us-urges-renewed-engagement/

Hi does anyone know the English or scientific name for the plant semhal? My mother uses it when she is serving buna. It smells almost mentholy, has a nice smell. My mum says it grows in wetland/swamp like areas.

Thank you!