From center to periphery: Eritrea’s forced disengagement from Ethiopia
Disparate notes on the long and short history of Eritrea Introduction: A great deal is being said and…
Tekeste Negash (Prof)37 min read
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The Post-Colonial Pitch: Wealth, Memory, and the Geography of Football
The World Cup has prompted important conversations about belonging and identity. Another question deserves equal attention: why does…
Dr. Sadia Hassanen7 min read
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The Citizen Before the Bloc: A Critique of Younis Omer’s Politics of Equilibrium
I come to this discussion with humility. I am still a newcomer to the Awate forum, and I…
Dr. Filmon Wolde13 min read
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The Sea Between Selves: Exile, Transformation, and the Blin Soul
Exile is conceptualized as an existential condition structured around four foundational archetypes the grave, house, shield, and sea…
Dr. Sadia Hassanen6 min read
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My Fatherly Plea to Every Eritrean in the Diaspora
My Fatherly Plea to Every Eritrean in the Diaspora Who Dreams of a Bright Future for the Eritrean…
Prof. Araya Debessay,8 min read
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The Extraction of Heroic Capital in Eritrea
Abstract: This essay examines how the Eritrean state converted the moral authority of the armed struggle into a…
Dr. Filmon Wolde8 min read
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Sarigoble, the Woven Shield of Siolidarity
What can a song teach us about belonging? Through the celebrated Saho composition Sarigoble by Ali Abdullah Ahmed,…
Dr. Sadia Hassanen7 min read
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Why the Eritrean Diaspora Must Belong to Its People, Not the State
Introduction When a civic association, religious institution, or cultural space fractures in the Eritrean diaspora, the formal debate…
awatestaff7 min read
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A Refugee in My Own Country
The House That Remains, Exile, Return, and the Stratified Self This article is dedicated to Eritrean veterans, both…
Dr. Sadia Hassanen5 min read
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The Covert Civic Vulgarity Beneath Our Nationalist Songs
I recently came across a song by Meron Estifanos, freshly uploaded to YouTube and already making its way…
Dr. Filmon Wolde13 min read
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The Dead Now Require Airplane Tickets
A Tigrayit song, exile, and the geography of remembrance. The song found me on an ordinary evening. Outside my…
Dr. Sadia Hassanen5 min read
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How the Pledged Public Works
A Second Explanation for Readers Who Want the Mechanism, Not Just the Idea The public is not the…
Dr. Filmon Wolde17 min read
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The Pledged Public: Toward an answer to “The Grammar of Promise”
“The problem is not to find the best ruler. The problem is to make it impossible for a…
Dr. Filmon Wolde24 min read
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The Grammar of Promise: How Eritrean Political Thought Became Trapped Inside Its Own Logic
“The most dangerous moment for a bad government is when it begins to reform.” – Alexis de Tocqueville…
Dr. Filmon Wolde18 min read
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ተጋዳላይ ከመዓልካ (ዶ-በረኸት ሃብተስላሴ)
ተጋዳላይ ከመዓልካ ጅግና ተጋዳላይ ሰላም ዶ ክብለካ? መንፈሰይ ይሕደስ ወርትግ ክሓስበካ ናይ ሓርነት ጸዳል ዘብርህ ግንባርካ ኣኽራን ዝቐስቀሰ…
Dr. Bereket Habte Selassie2 min read
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Eritrea’s Ghost Bureaucracy
1. Hidden Bias Eritrean political life is often narrated through the familiar vocabulary of dictatorship, militarization, and repression,…
Younis Omer (Ali Salim)10 min read
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The Anatomy of State Failure in Eritrea
I. The Origins of Authority States do not fail in a single dramatic moment. They unravel slowly, beginning…
Younis Omer (Ali Salim)11 min read
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The Elephant in the Room
I. The Meteor We Pretend Fell From the Sky There is a comforting story circulating in Eritrean political…
Younis Omer (Ali Salim)10 min read
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OUR NATIONAL UNITY: Why Eritrea’s Political Imagination Fails Reality
I. The Illusion We Keep Rehearsing In recent weeks, I have been reading a series of essays on…
Younis Omer10 min read
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The Normalization of Self-Censorship in Eritrea
When self-censorship becomes pervasive, a society forfeits more than the right to open dissent; it forfeits the very…
Dawit Mesfin13 min read
