braindrain sucks.

I’ve said it before.
I say it again.

Is it OK that there are more ethiopian doctors in US than in Ethiopia?
Is it OK that the brain-drain seriously is slowing down the development of a country that really needs to develop?

I say NO.

Almost all young people I meet desperately want to leave Ethiopia. Desperately want to try their luck in whatever country they may get visa for. Desperately want to leave.

Personally I think it is stupid. Yeah. I understand the part of wanting to leave to get a chance to get real money and live a wealthy life bla bla but seriously – take my home country for example: we have extremly well educated taxi drivers and burger flippers. People who could be in their (poor) home countries and be a part of the change, the development, the prosperity of their beloved home countries they are instead driving my old uncle back and forth in a taxi.

Is it really money that is everything?

Why should countries like Ethiopia “feed” US and european countries with their educated people?

Sorry to say it, but if there is ever going to be a change you need to stop complaining and stop trying to get out of this country and instead start to work.

I am absolutely sure that Ethiopia has a bright and prosperious future.

But then you have to stay and build it.

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