Recent confrontations in Tigray are a sign that the 2022 peace process has seriously derailed.

When a political leader repeatedly tells us what he wants, albeit through absurdity, there is a point at which treating it as a joke becomes its own form of denial.

While many might view Trump’s renamings as comical or unserious, for Indigenous communities, they are reminiscent of centuries of settler-colonial erasure.

Saying ‘sorry’ to someone in authority evokes more guilt and shame in your first language.