Liberating Civil Society
I should probably start by saying a few words about how amazing the developments in the opposition camp in general
The Sound Of Money
Is it, one wonders, love or simply money that makes the world go round? I think it is money. But
We Produce Our Own Leaders
Although there are various cultural, psychological, political, economic, social, geographic, regional, etc. factors that bring good or bad leaders to
The Sound That Men Produce
The music teacher told the choir consisting of boys and girls with good and bad voices alike to sing loud
Eritrean Traditional Fairies
They live in barren mountains and in woods, in creeks, in rivers and streams, in deep canyons and ravines and
The Need For Historical Fairness
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it, once said Winston Churchill. Ever since writing was
Eritrean Schoolchildren Stories
When the issue of producing goodly fruits out of the Eritrean children of the 1950s was discussed, a book containing
Political And Fundamentalist Religion
Whenever I hear the word culture I reach for my gun. That’s Goebbels, of course. I don’t know why he
Precision, Symmetry and The Analytical Mind
In Eritrea, highland women use a spindle and cotton wad to spin yarn in order to clothe their husbands with
The Work That Men Do
“Why do people work?” once asked a friend of mine known for his aversion to anything that distantly demanded physical
Dissipation Of Social And Political Energy
Entropy, a scientific term, is described as disorder and a dispersal of energy, a dispersal of particles which are themselves
Close Encounters With Superstition
Adey Lettu loved to drink coffee early in the morning after attending church mass. She trusted St. Michael but distrusted
When A Bomb Fails To Explode
What do you do when a bomb (of the old type) fails to go off after you light on the
How To Profit From Reading
My uncle, Malu had been reading the Psalms (Dawit) in Ge’ez for the last forty years, with tears in his
The Awakening
It is probably a déjà vu. A surge of global consciousness similar to the one that transpired in the 1960s
Breaking The Kitchen Barrier
It is written in Genesis that Adam and his helpmeet were told not to eat of the forbidden fruit. “And
Now They’ve Got The Money!
What a combination! A reckless regime and a mountain of gold. But some combinations can be unstable like glycerin and
A Noisy Village Is Our World
Our world is fast shrinking thanks to the Internet, mobile phones, sat dishes and high-speed planes. Now, in this small
The Evil That Men Do
A Persian sage once said that the greatest oppression a person experiences in life is mental oppression. The body is
The Trouble With Eritrea
Some countries are very unlucky to find themselves on the wrong side of the globe. Poland had been one of
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