Addis Ababa: Ethiopia's new flower

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You've made two assumptions here. The first is that I have a bias in favor of the Northern tribes. I do not. Why would I? As a first-timer to Ethiopia how could I have had a bias for or against anybody?
The second is that I got my information from Wikipedia. I did not. Your comment made me curious and I looked up the Wikipedia entry for Addis Ababa. It actually mentions the Oromo settlement of Finfine, so it is you who haven't checked your sources. Before I went my background reading included the Kebra Negast and A History of Ethiopia by Harold Marcus. Once I was in Ethiopia my sources were the people I met, especially my driver/translator. I won't tell you what region he's from because that's not important to me, nor should it be for you.

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