Author: G. Ande
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The National Conference And The Expectant Community
Speculations about a National Convention of opposition parties and civic organizations aiming at working on a road map for the future of Eritrea, have been on the airwaves and headlines of major Eritrean websites especially during the last six months preceding the first week of August 2010. And after a prelude of a lot of
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Is Giving The Kebessa Eritrean Population A Black Eye A Solution?
Commentary on Aklilu Zere’s series of articles By G. Ande Aklilu Zere is no doubt a dubiously “clever” writer with a stinging pen but readers may still learn something from his narratives. The major problem I have with his works is that he makes a lot of insidious and insensitive remarks that suggest that he
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Hgi Endaba: The Laws of our Ancestors
Megedi ArbiAa: Part I In the small but highly diversified ethnic and cultural make up of the Eritrean population, there is something called Hgi Endaba which literally means the laws and or customs inherited from our ancestors. In the Christian/ Tygrina/highland population category, the word “Mother Land” is rarely used when referring to our
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Dilemma of the Decade: Betting On the Eritrean Opposition
“There is no such thing as a Good Opinion or A Bad Opinion if we stand for free speech” We all have heard numerous times this triangle of hate kind of a story involving three players. The Eritrean regime, the opposition and the real or imagined “enemies” of the Eritrean regime ranging