tant qrib, tant 'il boghod

Kemm hemm Etjopjani nameless, faceless Hal Safi kollha mohhhom biex jiehdu l-beneficji u jtaqqlu n-nisa vergni u kattolici taghna b'trabi musulmani suwed? Saru 1% tal-popolazzjoni? U x'nafu dwarhom hlief li huma suwed, ma jridux jahdmu, iservu ta' lixka ghal Lowell u m'ghandomx fashion sense. Ezatt bhal certi Maltin insomma...

Imma forsi jien biased ghax l-Etjopjani u l-Eritreani dejjem kelli simpatija ghalihom... wahda ghax kienu kolonja Taljana (imsieken), ohra ghax huma nies simpatici immens. Ironija kbira li b'dawk l-Etjopjani kollha iduru Malta, l-Etjopjani li naf, sirt nafhom fir-ristoranti ta' Amsterdam u Rotterdam. Tista' tghid bla eccezzjoni dawk li ltqajt maghhom jien kienu nies dhulin, kolti, bla ebda pretensjoni u, punt kardinali minhabba l-Olandiz patetiku tieghi, kienu jafu bl-Ingliz.

U fuq livell iehor il-muzika pop vintage taghhom hi forsi l-aqwa muzika pop li qatt smajt f'hajti. Mhux qed nezagera... halli tisimghu lil Mahmoud Ahmed - tahlita ta' muzika gharbija, swing lubien u jazz à la Sun Ra u hemm cans taqblu mieghi.

Hemm ukoll il-lingwa, fosthom il-Ge'ez u s-Sabean, li donnhom kienu l-ispirazzjoni ghal kitba ta' l-aljeni f'Futurama u f'hafna films ta' fantaxjenza, u iktar stramba minn hekk:

Ge’ez took 24 symbols from the Sabean writing system. The early form of Ge’ez was written in boustrophedon, which is writing in alternate lines in opposite directions, as from left to right and then from right to left on the next line, and then left to right on the next line, and so on. (Asher 1149).

Mela issa tafu xi haga - almenu dawk minnkom li thobbu tippowstjaw zozzeriji tipo Ave Melita jew Viva Lowell fuq xi forum forsi tkunu tafu kontra min qed tippowstjaw mhux "xadini" in generali. U la qedghin fl-argument, forsi ta' min taqbdu atlas u taraw fejn jahbtu l-Etjopja u l-Eritrea ukoll qabel ma tmorru xi mass meeting (3 minn nies) ta' Lowell, ukoll - idea biss ta.

X'imhatra qatt ma kilt ikel Etjopjan, Sur Kittieb tal-Kebabs...