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Schooling and Social Capital Among Eritrean Refugees

Revolutionary Schooling and Social Capital Among Eritrean Refugees in Sudan A remarkable educational experiment took root in the arid borderlands

Memory, Martyrdom, and the Eritrean Struggle

In Echoes of Bravery: Martyr Mahmoud Ibrahim’s Enduring Legacy, Amer Hagos (2025) constructs an impassioned, meticulously researched biography that is

The Last Matriarch Passing the Torch of Family Tradition

Life is just a pilgrimage from the womb to the tomb.—   Cornel West In the cycle of life, we

Reviewing Negarit 320: A Letter of Truth and Reconciliation

In Negarit 320 published April the 10th, 2025, Saleh Gadi Johar, henceforth referred to as The Writer. The latter because

Between Approbation and Anathema Justice Suffers

“The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were

Weaponizing Silence, Vulgarizing Languages

(Editor’s note: this article was first published on July 26, 2023; it’s being republished as a reference.) When one’s faith

Thanks to Dr. MK Omar, Inputs Enriching the Eritrean Library

Many Eritreans are for sure not well aware of how much poor the Eritrean library still is. Records of the

Azien Yasin, the Famous Freedom Fighter I never knew

Azien Yasin was a brilliant freedom fighter who had great influence on the Eritrean Liberation Front. He was present on

History is Watching us

[This article is dedicated to a group of Eritrea’s Prisoners of Conscience who were arrested in 2001 after criticising President

The myth of the “pure Eritrean.”

Eritrea, given its strategic location on the Red Sea, has been a gate to Africa and a destination for various

Is Ethiopia Doomed?

For an Eritrean, pretending to wear a 20/20 lens, you dwell on snooping around Ethiopian critiques, regardless of their successes

The Dilemma of Eritrean Diaspora Movements – Article review

“The Eritrean Diaspora Opposition Movements: Obstacles and Challenges”, A Master thesis, Linné University, Sweden, by Berhane Kidane, spring term, 2022.

The Horn of Africa States Ethiopia’s Undiplomatic Faux Pas

It was always clear that Ethiopia’s false historical narrative would one day catch up with it. The country that was

The Horn of Africa States The Need Beyond the Narrow Mindset

Favoritism is a disease that causes immense damage to any organization, country, or region. It takes competency out of the

Revelations of a Former Eritrean Freedom Fighter

To learn how a nation can spiral into a self-destructive vortex of paranoia, one should read Semere Solomon’s new book

Unsolicited Advice to Brighed N’Hamedu (BNH)

Introduction. The birth of Brighed N’Hamedu (BNH), in Cologne, Germany, in 2022, has greatly energized justice-seeking Eritrean youth in the

Book Review: A Memoir of Eritrean Freedom Fighter Mesfin Hagos

Book Review An African Revolution Reclaimed: A Memoir of Eritrean Freedom Fighter Mesfin Hagos. By Mesfin Hagos with Awet Tewelde

PM Abiy & Co, bullying, belaboring, and big lies

“What a tangled web we weave when first we practice to deceive” (Sir. Walter Scott, 1808) Towards the end of

Omissions & Biases: Mesfin Hagos’s Book

Mesfin Hagos’s English Book on Eritrea: Useful Facts Tainted by Omissions & Biases   This article about the book in

A Tribute to Saleh “Gadi” Johar

By Dr. Daniel Araya From the onset, it’s imperative for me to state the two reasons that made me undertake

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