Diblan-The
Mother of all Meetings.
Pure Fiction – Part two......…Continued
from Part One…
…Abba Gideer always speaks his mind
with wisdom and conciliatory tone. He has an elderly status
in the community and everyone in the community is expected to
respect him and listen to his advice. He gave his piece eloquently
and rested his case. No supplement or objection, but allowed
ample time for everyone to gather their thoughts for the next
round of discussion.
…..…End Part One ……
Diblan-The Mother of all Meetings.
Pure Fiction – Part two
You, our leaders, “Is the testimony given
by Abba Gideer familiar to anyone of you here” said the
second speaker. “I
bet it is” “Irrespective of the organization
you belong to, I am confident that you did your utmost towards
the betterment of your community”. Then, the million dollar
question that begs for an answer is, the hostility and the negative
perception of others towards you.” said with a soothing
voice. “Always remember” he concluded; “despite
all this, you are our leaders and we are your followers; you
either unite us or we remain weak and divided forever”.
A loud and angry voice came from nowhere in the crowd.
“These people, you fellows are referring to, have mismanaged our funds
badly, they also abused their power, and…”
“Here we go again, a cheap way of character assassination” murmured
one lady.
“Point of Order” said another.
“Sam bal akhakh” shot back the fellow furiously.
“Sam elumekh!” responded the man, and continued “Yee
usuachuw nikhashayumena, mahalaqzinaw zibalachintyou.”. “ Egnach
alay usu yatmalahlana…”
After a few more inflammatory exchanges of accusations and
mud slinging back and forth, the entire hall caught on fire
and sank into chaos. The Chairman attempted to maintain the
order, but to no avail. Sadly, the Mother of all Meetings for
Harari Unity disrupted uncontrollably and ended with an intended
long-suffering outcome.
“Time and again, I was told, so called Community Leaders
and would be ones engage in such unsubstantiated accusations
and misdemeanor, leading to an ugly confrontation. Sadly enough,
I have also witnessed quite often when leaders subconsciously
engaging in an attempt to change the culture (Talas) of an organization
they join or the organization’s expectation of new members
to be complacent to it’s already established Culture (Talas).
Yet again, I realized that we all failed to understand what
an organizational culture means and the complexity it entails
and how it evolved into being what it is.
The phenomenon of an organizational culture (Talas) is simply
more evident in the circles of Jammas that are characterized
by its members being so close to each other in many of their
attributes; the way they communicate and their method of resolving
conflicts. Therefore, it is fair to say that an act of joining
a specific group is not merely an accidental one but rather
a cultural (Talas) resemblance to the organization’s cultural
norms.
Einstein once said” The significant problems we have
cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we
created them” Since we can not use the same recipe all
the time and expect a different taste, we need to redefine our
current organizational status and needs and devise a new model.
Our current leaders have relentlessly pursued to achieve the
so called “Harari Unity” with every skill and experience
they gained over the decades. However, to everyone’s disappointment,
all their attempted effort hit a dead end. In a nation that
has evolved into being so diverse in its organizational needs
and culture, the traditionally prescribed “UNITY” model
must completely be dropped and modified into a new model; a
model that can accommodate our existing diverse organizational
needs and one that is capable of satisfying our collective Harari
national interests.
Changing leadership is a quick fix method to an immediate problem,
but not a solution to a deeply rooted systemic and diverse cultural
collides between organizations. Therefore, the problem at hand
can not be solved with our traditionally prescribed band aid
remedies and at our current level of thinking.
More than ever, our Harari Nation is challenged
in its social, economic and political development, more so,
on the uncertainty of its very survival. To confront this dilemma,
we need to call upon, and voice our concern to our respective
leaders to seriously think and devise a
new model for uniting our nation in an Alliance. An Alliance
that fully recognizes the liberty of each Harari community organizations,
Afochas, Jammas or
interest groups, with due respect to their leadership, constitutions,
mandates and contributions.
We at Khairiwer, are launching an initiative
for a Harari Alliance and invite all Harari Communities, Afochas,
Jammas or interest groups to join us, as well as discuss and
evaluate its merits.
The working mechanism and structure of the
initiative is something that would be developed with the blessing,
support and proactive participation of all Hararis of the Alliance
voluntarily in a collaborative fashion.
August 22, 2007
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