Africa's Asian Options (AFRASO)
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What the emperor saw on a morning drive – a short history of Indian educators in Ethiopia
The only African country to have never been colonized, Ethiopia developed its formal education system independently of former colonial powers. Nevertheless, Haile Selassie, under whose leadership the development of the education system began, involved several countries in the initial stages. From the 1940s onwards he hired teachers not only from Western countries but also from India to meet the demands of the rapidly expanding Secondary Education Sector. When Ethiopia enlarged its Higher Education Sector six decades later, around the turn of the millennium, again Indian educators were hired. Although Indian educators have played an important role in Ethiopian education since the beginning, documentation of this African-Asian entanglement has so far been lacking.
The film takes Emperor Haile Selassie’s inspiring state visit to India in 1956 as its point of departure. It outlines the importance that Haile Selassie attached to education as a vehicle for progress, and suggests some reasons for why he chose Orthodox Christian teachers from Kerala to assist in his plans to expand the education sector. Most of those teachers taught English and the Sciences at secondary schools throughout the country. One of the first batch of teachers who arrived to Ethiopia in 1947, Paul Gregorius, not only became a central figure in India’s Orthodox Church but also returned to Ethiopia as an advisor to Haile Selassie. Indian teachers continued to arrive in Ethiopia under the succeeding socialist government, which tried to extend education to the masses. Political and economic turmoil at the end of the socialist regime finally led to a brief hiatus in the arrival of Indians in Ethiopia’s educational institutions. With the turn of the millennium, the current government began a new endeavour to expand the higher education system, and Indian educators are once more arriving in Ethiopia, this time to teach in the mushrooming state universities.
In the short film, we hear from several people who share their insights concerning this part of Ethio-Indian history and relations: Dr. Asfa-Wossen Asserate, grandnephew and biographer of Haile Selassie; Rf. Dr. Jossi Jacob, professor of theology at Holy Trinity Theological College in Addis Ababa; Dr. John and Lissy Kunnathu, former teachers to Ethiopia; Dr. Hanna Getachew Amare, Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, Hawassa University; Dr. Mohit Bhatara, Professor of Psychology, Hawassa University.
The idea for the film developed during research conducted by Dr. Sophia Thubauville in the context of the interdisciplinary research project Africa’s Asian Options (AFRASO). Time constraints mean the film provides a mostly Indian perspective. Its main aim is to add individual voices and faces to the scientific research papers produced during that research. Recordings were done in Kerala in autumn 2017, in Ethiopia in spring 2018 and in Frankfurt in summer 2018. The film was sponsored by the German Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).
Thanks to: Rf. Abraham Thomas, Dr. Abraham Verghese, Dr. Asfa-Wossen Asserate, Prof. George C. Verghese, Dr. Hanna Getachew Amare, Dr. John Kunnathu, Joice Thottakadu, Rf. Dr. Jossi Jacob, Dr. Mohit Bhatra, Lissy Kunnathu, Padmakumar K. S. and all the Indian and Ethiopian colleagues who enriched the research preceding this film.
Acknowledgement: Centre for Interdisciplinary African Studies - ZIAF, Africa’s Asian Options (AFRASO) - Germany, Goethe University Frankfurt, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research - BMBF.
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  • @Adwoanyarkoa-93
    @Adwoanyarkoa-93 Місяць тому

    Mohammed ibn Batuta was not an Arab but Moroccan ( African) under islamization.

  • @hzlkelly
    @hzlkelly 3 місяці тому

    If we Africans worked 24/7 😂😂😂 I don’t know.

  • @cheriewi7874
    @cheriewi7874 5 місяців тому

    African should try to learn from the past, why would they let foreign countries involved in the mining business... It must be done by locals.... Poor Africans, why don't you use your sacred mind..... They want to steal your riches...

  • @Ali9718
    @Ali9718 11 місяців тому

    What a shame to see this type of environmental disaster taking place in this day and time. These corrupted leadership in Cameroon will allow the Chinese to strip the land, leaving the desperate population even worst than before while stuffing their pockets together with their Chinese partners. Why don't they invest on their own citizens to exploit these gold? This self hateful leaders are the problem of African countries. I can see why Ambazonia was right to standup for their rights, and take control of their own political and economic future.

  • @rose-kp4lf
    @rose-kp4lf Рік тому

    african asian music 🎶 🎵 👌 "african indian"

  • @rose-kp4lf
    @rose-kp4lf Рік тому

    british indian prime minister 2022 2023 how about kenyan indian prime minister 🤔 😊

  • @rose-kp4lf
    @rose-kp4lf Рік тому

    parsi farsi community. ? bohra memon jain just to name a few top of mind oh yes sikh goan friends hindu punjabi wow all blend in fantastic 👏 🎉

  • @rose-kp4lf
    @rose-kp4lf Рік тому

    thank you lord ! 🙏

  • @rose-kp4lf
    @rose-kp4lf Рік тому

    वाह वाह bless you you are spot on after marriage self worth में कोन क्या हु my roots very nicely written video wow ! bombay african BEAUTIFUL 🙏

  • @pshivjee
    @pshivjee Рік тому

    Well Compiled Movies. 🎬 👍

  • @cush5147
    @cush5147 Рік тому

    AfroAsian why attach Asia to Africa as there has never been a Middle East before the Suez Canal was invented by the colonizing Europeans; what we call Middle East has always sat on the African tectonic plate; in terms of the East Indians, the Dravidians or the original people's sometimes referred to as Dalits are Ethiopians/Africans. The term Dalits means Bound and the name may have been given to them by those who enslaved them and put them into a racist caste system at the lowest levels. The Dalits or Dravidians were the indigenous peoples of India or the Eastern Ethiopians or Eastern Africans. THE distinction between the black skinned Sudroid races of Southern India and the fair skinned Aryan races of Northern India is not an invention of English colonialism historians; it is a feature mentioned by the earliest Greek travelers who visited South Asia centuries before the advent of Robert Clive. The ancient Greeks said that the black Africans and the Sudras(modern Dalits and Dravidians) as belonging to the same Ethiopian stock; Ethiopian was the Greek word for negro and Greek authors referred to the Negros as Western Ethiopians and the Dravidians as the Eastern Ethiopians or (Eastern Negros)! Witness the following citation from Herodotus: "the Eastern Ethiopians (Sudras) differed in nothing from the other Ethiopians, save in their language and the character of their hair texture; for the Eastern Ethiopians have straight hair, while they, the Western Ethiopians, are more wolly haired!

  • @donveto4317
    @donveto4317 2 роки тому

    The Cameronians must learn from the Chinese how to be a hard worker. Some Chinese are good and some are arrogant but they all have one thing in common, they are hard working people!

    • @Ali9718
      @Ali9718 11 місяців тому

      They don't need to learn working hard doing a labourer job. The job has to offer some motivational incentives, as fair salaries. Anyway they don't need to have the Chinese exploiting gold in their villages because the Chinese would not permit them to do same in China.

  • @mosaidi2633
    @mosaidi2633 2 роки тому

    The whole story started in Zanzibar back then 1600

  • @ewaste-jd-preciousmetals3723
    @ewaste-jd-preciousmetals3723 2 роки тому

    China is the world's destroyer.

  • @malcolmking5023
    @malcolmking5023 2 роки тому

    I want to learn the real KiSwahili that is so corrupted with arabic, or other influences.

  • @itswagboyj2236
    @itswagboyj2236 2 роки тому

    am actually guinean who wanna go to malaysia for study soon

  • @GGathingi
    @GGathingi 2 роки тому

    ❤❤❤❤ this such an eye opener.

  • @chaseofori-atta2225
    @chaseofori-atta2225 2 роки тому

    Sad state of affairs!👎

  • @MrNTR1
    @MrNTR1 2 роки тому

    Well i'm only sticking up for common sense and the sake of African development but the Chinese didnt come there to develop a community they came there to mine gold. The Chinese SEEM to be working class trying to provide for family. So why should we expect them to develop the community if we havent made it a condition in their contracts. If you had a choice to 'fund another nations governments projects with your ''hard'' earned capital or provide for your family generations to come? Which one will you chose? Isn't development the main reason we tax these foreign companies. Where does the tax money go? The money spent on licenses, permits and other documents they pay gov for them to operate. So we can put some money back in to infrstructure etc.... so if leadership arent enforcing or amending regulations to benefit the immediate community an environment there's need to be a change in leadership. Our problem is leadership and community. Our problem is social. They will deal with whom ever represents us as government. So if

  • @lepidoptera9337
    @lepidoptera9337 2 роки тому

    Like everywhere in the world small scale gold mining is a low profit business that leaves a giant environmental mess.

  • @matthewmann8969
    @matthewmann8969 3 роки тому

    Many Desis could pass for being Horn Africans yeah

  • @s.k.manuel4308
    @s.k.manuel4308 3 роки тому

    LISTEN TO THEY CAREFULLY,, THE HAVE COME LOOT AFRICA.

  • @s.k.manuel4308
    @s.k.manuel4308 3 роки тому

    THE CHINESE ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS. AFRICANS MUST COME BACK TO THEIR SENSES.

  • @jumpnsathis
    @jumpnsathis 3 роки тому

    16.22 u speak like indian

  • @dydy5905
    @dydy5905 3 роки тому

    MOUSTAFA SANO sudah lama duduk MALAYSIAN . pandai berbahasa MALAYSIAN 🔥🔥🔥

  • @dydy5905
    @dydy5905 3 роки тому

    MOUSTAFA SANO 🔥🔥🔥

  • @martycrow
    @martycrow 3 роки тому

    In some countries, there are many racist people. In some countries, there are many corrupt people. In some countries, there are many deceitful people. In a few countries, you can find all three and these are ideal for desperate or naive people.

  • @ebenezer1703
    @ebenezer1703 3 роки тому

    Are you telling me that you Cameroons do not know how to mine for gold, do you expect the Chinese and other foreigners to come into Africa and make you happy? What's wrong with you? Where are your leaders, what are they thinking or doing?

    • @lepidoptera9337
      @lepidoptera9337 2 роки тому

      I could ask you exactly the same thing. Why are you not mining gold in your own country? It's easy, right? You are a big boy, you can do it. :-)

  • @zakiaabdelouahab1616
    @zakiaabdelouahab1616 3 роки тому

    Neera kapur

  • @denismoran670
    @denismoran670 3 роки тому

    .... and whilst lauding the efforts of the above mentioned, let's spare a thought for the town in a small country where the 'Lion of Judah' was educated - Swansea. in Wales! He attended the Bible College at Derwen Fawr, now disappeared, during the period of his secondary education.

  • @mirapatel1824
    @mirapatel1824 3 роки тому

    Mimi na jua swahili!

  • @RK-dj4xb
    @RK-dj4xb 3 роки тому

    Jews in india were/are never persecuted in India. Not sure why anyone of Indian origin would feel or be persecuted in India !!!!!!!!!

  • @gijuvarghese6545
    @gijuvarghese6545 3 роки тому

    Wow! My parents and my two elder siblings lived in Ethiopia from 1966 to 1969. My dad worked at Teachers Training Institute (TTI), and taught biology. I was born in Ras Makonen Hospital in Harar, Ethiopia in 1967 - as recorded on my birth certificate. For my parents, Ethiopia was their first country outside India and were blessed to travel far and wide. Their memories of Ethiopia is very warm and dear and Amaric is the only foreign language apart from English that the picked up. My siblings remember Ethiopia too even though they were under 5...something about the people there. I dont remember anything from there, but I am told I knew Amaric as a toddler. I must visit and spend time there.

  • @polunnel
    @polunnel 3 роки тому

    Our Engineering College Hostel ( from MA College of Engineering, Kothamangalam, Kerala) built ~1950s was named HS 1 & HS2 ( Haile Selassie 1 & 2) . Honouring the Ethiopian Emperor.

  • @AnilKumar-in9cx
    @AnilKumar-in9cx 3 роки тому

    Afrasian is not just the story of Kenyan shores but Tanzanian,Ugandan and other Asian indians mostly .I request you to cover their history as well.

  • @mideyeadde1470
    @mideyeadde1470 3 роки тому

    During medieval era, Somalis called indian ocean as Mogadishu ocean as Mogadishu was the most flourushing bussiness hub. When we lost dominance in this ocean foreigners called it other names.

  • @sufiyyahmusa4420
    @sufiyyahmusa4420 3 роки тому

    More of this music ...how can I find it. She and the musicians are such a great sound.

  • @nusratdavdani7045
    @nusratdavdani7045 3 роки тому

    I am from Mombasa originally and LOVED this documentary- very valuable information - roots discovered

  • @mmanek3465
    @mmanek3465 3 роки тому

    Excellent documentary, learnt a lot.

  • @aluruvlogs1756
    @aluruvlogs1756 3 роки тому

    I have studied in Uganda in 1981 to 1983

  • @navdasone4710
    @navdasone4710 3 роки тому

    Beautiful music. How to access it?

  • @swalehelshabiby5915
    @swalehelshabiby5915 3 роки тому

    The Queen of sheba whose roots from Yemen and Ethiopia Arabia is connected to Africa.

    • @dorandacolbert5973
      @dorandacolbert5973 3 роки тому

      Ethiopia Arabia?

    • @thirdeffect
      @thirdeffect Рік тому

      Yes, Afroasiatic peoples are related since ancient times. Salaam ✌🏽 jazakhalakhair

  • @swalehelshabiby5915
    @swalehelshabiby5915 3 роки тому

    Historians wa ukweli

  • @winniehall5569
    @winniehall5569 3 роки тому

    Jameni ndugu zanguni, haya maisha yana mambo. Binadamu ni wengi lakini humo katikati kuna shetani. Mungu atusaidie sana. Tazama hili jambo, Mehmood from Sudan had doubts hapa, lea hii UA-cam. Asante for taking time to educate us.

  • @محمدشريف-ي9ل6س
    @محمدشريف-ي9ل6س 3 роки тому

    Ive ejoyed it asante saana shukran

  • @anointeddignity5986
    @anointeddignity5986 3 роки тому

    A HIDDEN HISTORY BY THE EUROPEAN MISSIONARIES

  • @crioulom120
    @crioulom120 3 роки тому

    The African slave trade by the Arabs started right here, on the east coast of Africa, 400 years b4 the beginning of transatlantic slave trade on the west coast of Africa. Yet many of of us on the east coast don't and/or are uncomfortable talking about the crimes that the Arabs committed against our ancestors due to the religious they brought to us, but are quickly to condemn the evil deeds of the Europeans on us..

  • @watchingthehawks355
    @watchingthehawks355 3 роки тому

    So the black Africans left their culture and takes a foreign culture.

    • @justinamusyoka4986
      @justinamusyoka4986 3 роки тому

      True,kiswahili is a mix from Bantus,Arabic ,Shirazi etc Many kiswahili words come from outside Bantu scope.

    • @boomslange391
      @boomslange391 Рік тому

      A ppl that can't lead will be lead

  • @KO.....
    @KO..... 3 роки тому

    Mscheeeww!! The same Asian's that detest African's and treat us like animals in their countries. And some even in our own countries on the continent of Africa. Payback will come one day!

    • @sajidali1241
      @sajidali1241 3 роки тому

      Respect and Regard

    • @vinoddamji5729
      @vinoddamji5729 3 роки тому

      I do not detest Africans at all but some Africans detest me as I am Asian. We were unfairly made to be scapegoats for problems of the country. I do not blame the people but politicians are to be blamed.

    • @vinoddamji5729
      @vinoddamji5729 3 роки тому

      @Don Andretti Thank you for your response. What you have said is a GENERALISED statement about Asians. If you read my comments properly I clearly said SOME Africans which clearly means not everyone. Additionally I also said I DO NOT BLAME THE PEOPLE but Politicians who are looking to blame problems of the country on others.

    • @somuchthingstosay3704
      @somuchthingstosay3704 3 роки тому

      @Don Andretti Preach brother preach!

    • @vinoddamji5729
      @vinoddamji5729 3 роки тому

      @Don Andretti I think South Asia is a large place so please make it clear which country would you be talking about specifically and also Africa is large so which African country would you be talking about when you imply Asians living freely and not treating fellow Africans decently according to you. Very much interested to know this. Thank you

  • @Churros1616
    @Churros1616 3 роки тому

    We need to rebuild the mansions, castles from our ancestors!

    • @elajahceesay1905
      @elajahceesay1905 Рік тому

      Are u going to move back to India or what , some of these people were enslaved in africa . U want to be indian in africa but if u step ur foot in india they will call u slave . I don't know why african love to be mixed with other , why can't u be black african , what type of nonsense music that black african try to play . Arabs enslave some of these east african but they still want to claim arab , and indian who came to africa are from low cast system . What's good about indian and arab culture in africa