INTRODUCTION: What you are going to read here is not history! But it is not fiction either! You may consider it a trail of memories that an Akrian boy may have run in his mind during the last crisis in the neighborhood. For sure this essay is not history but …
Read More »WikiLeaks, Rashaida and Egypt
Which is more real? WikiLeaks cables concerning Eritrea and its ruling clique, although amusing, has around it an air of fantasy as seen by an Eritrean eye; what is ‘ honey-glazed-Swa-fermented-grilled-goatmeat’ to Eritreans? To hungry Eritreans it may even sound as if it is a story jumping to his consciousness …
Read More »Nile Politics: Egypt’s Kiss Of Death
Introduction: it is now obvious that the tyrant in Eritrea has entered a stage of confusion and hallucination that every dictator succumbs to at one time or another when he finds all the roads and options to his project faltering and hitting the dead-end closed road. Take, for instance, the …
Read More »A Third Side Of A Coin
Separatist! The Eritrean National struggle was never a separatist struggle as some Eritrean quarters are now philosophizing and before them many Ethiopians who preferred to give up to bitterness and bury their heads in the sand. From the beginning to the end the separatist and the secessionist was Ethiopia, not …
Read More »Of Kings And Bandits: A Literary Review
I see men making a language of music and music out of language; men dreaming of finer lives, and living them. Here is a process of creation more vivid than in any myth, godliness more real than in any creed – Will Durant, A Shameless Worship Of Heroes Life is …
Read More »A Chieftain In The Pasha’s Camp
I There is no position more embarrassing than that of the historian in relation to his subject of expertise: history. One of the distinguishing features of science from other human endeavors is its ability to predict and anticipate to an ever improving degree of precision, the possibilities, results and outcome …
Read More »A Sudanese Journalist of Fortune
In my afternoon visits to the Eritrean websites on December 25, 2009, I was surprised to come across a report on Adulis.com about an article written by a Sudanese journalist, Mr. Kamal Hassen Bakheet of the government-affiliated Al-Rae Al-Am Arabic Newspaper on the sanctions the Security Council imposed on the …
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