Liberating Civil Society
I should probably start by saying a few words about how amazing the developments in the opposition camp…
Younis Omer (Ali Salim)18 min read
U-Turn
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The Sound Of Money
Is it, one wonders, love or simply money that makes the world go round? I think it is…
Amanuel Sahle7 min read
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We Produce Our Own Leaders
Although there are various cultural, psychological, political, economic, social, geographic, regional, etc. factors that bring good or bad…
Amanuel Sahle7 min read
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The Sound That Men Produce
The music teacher told the choir consisting of boys and girls with good and bad voices alike to…
Amanuel Sahle8 min read
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Eritrean Traditional Fairies
They live in barren mountains and in woods, in creeks, in rivers and streams, in deep canyons and…
Amanuel Sahle9 min read
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The Need For Historical Fairness
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it, once said Winston Churchill. Ever since…
Amanuel Sahle9 min read
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Eritrean Schoolchildren Stories
When the issue of producing goodly fruits out of the Eritrean children of the 1950s was discussed, a…
Amanuel Sahle7 min read
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Political And Fundamentalist Religion
Whenever I hear the word culture I reach for my gun. That’s Goebbels, of course. I don’t know…
Amanuel Sahle7 min read
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Precision, Symmetry and The Analytical Mind
In Eritrea, highland women use a spindle and cotton wad to spin yarn in order to clothe their…
Amanuel Sahle8 min read
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The Work That Men Do
“Why do people work?” once asked a friend of mine known for his aversion to anything that distantly…
Amanuel Sahle8 min read
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Dissipation Of Social And Political Energy
Entropy, a scientific term, is described as disorder and a dispersal of energy, a dispersal of particles which…
Amanuel Sahle8 min read
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Close Encounters With Superstition
Adey Lettu loved to drink coffee early in the morning after attending church mass. She trusted St. Michael…
Amanuel Sahle10 min read
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When A Bomb Fails To Explode
What do you do when a bomb (of the old type) fails to go off after you light…
Amanuel Sahle10 min read
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How To Profit From Reading
My uncle, Malu had been reading the Psalms (Dawit) in Ge’ez for the last forty years, with tears…
Amanuel Sahle15 min read
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The Awakening
It is probably a déjà vu. A surge of global consciousness similar to the one that transpired in…
Amanuel Sahle6 min read
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Breaking The Kitchen Barrier
It is written in Genesis that Adam and his helpmeet were told not to eat of the forbidden…
Amanuel Sahle8 min read
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Now They’ve Got The Money!
What a combination! A reckless regime and a mountain of gold. But some combinations can be unstable like…
Amanuel Sahle6 min read
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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…
Amanuel Sahle10 min read
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The Evil That Men Do
A Persian sage once said that the greatest oppression a person experiences in life is mental oppression. The…
Amanuel Sahle9 min read
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The Trouble With Eritrea
Some countries are very unlucky to find themselves on the wrong side of the globe. Poland had been…
Amanuel Sahle9 min read
