"Medemer"

"In the days following his D.C. gathering, the prime minister traveled to Los Angeles and Minneapolis, meeting waves of enthusiastic Ethiopians and Ethiopian Americans across the country. Some, like Girma, have found an unexpected affirmation of their identities—and a new voice.
"'There's a place for me in this … I can own my story and my context, knowing that Ethiopia is still yene hagere [my country] and I am hers,' Girma said after Saturday's events. 'And however my responsibility to [my] country manifests in the years to come, it comes from that place of love, of belonging.'"

Hannah Giorgis at The Atlantic reports on the state of the Ethiopian diaspora.