Downfall of an Emperor: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia
Book Review By Semere T Habtemariam Downfall of an Emperor: Haile Selassie of Ethiopia and the Derg’s Creeping…
Semere T Habtemariam11 min read
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A Return of Sorts to Religion
In a much-publicized recent religious event at the Anda Mariam Tewahdo church, many of the top Eritrean officials…
Ismael Ibraheem Al-Mukhtar6 min read
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Nepal: A Lesson for the PFDJ and the Youth
Every era popularizes certain names—mainly names of rulers and prominent people of the time. Since the nineteen-forties and…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar6 min read
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Sept. 18, 2001: The Day Memory Was Criminalized
Eritrea’s Day of Infamy: The Day Liberty Died Some days do not merely pass into history—they haunt it.…
Semere T Habtemariam21 min read
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A Shepherd, A Tiger Cub, and A Village
A shepherd boy, bored while tending his goats on the edge of a village, cried, “HELP! A tiger…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar4 min read
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Horn of Africa: A Unity Deferred: Between Memory and Possibility
The Horn of Africa remains one of the world’s most fragile political landscapes. State legitimacy is contested, nation-building…
Semere T Habtemariam8 min read
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In Conversation with History
The history of Eritrea cannot be reduced to isolated dates that mark the fall of emperors or the…
Beyan Negash6 min read
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Ageb and Eb, are these words alive in our languages!
I have talked and written hundreds of essays about reconciliation; the website I founded carried the slogan of…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar6 min read
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A Critique of Bereket Habtemariam’s Proposal on Sea Access and Sovereignty
Author’s Note: This essay is written in response to a document recently shared by Bereket Habtemariam on his…
Dr. Filmon Wolde9 min read
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Eritrean Opposition Group Move Towards Merger
• “This move signals a potential end to decades of fragmentation among Eritrean opposition forces.”
Gedab News3 min read
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More Reflections on Alemseged Tesfai’s Epilogue
This is not a proper article but rather a collection of thoughts … I started off well, but…
Dawit Mesfin7 min read
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Why Alemseged, Why? In Context
“History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our…
Beyan Negash7 min read
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Ethiopia’s Double Standard: Talking Peace on the Nile, Hinting Force on the Red Sea
Assab is not just a port—it’s where Eritrea’s national story began. Calls for Eritrea to cede it ignore…
Semere T Habtemariam4 min read
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The Religion of Eritreanism in Exile
Author’s Note: This essay is not a tactical critique of government or opposition, but an attempt to reframe…
Dr. Filmon Wolde6 min read
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Dr. Abdella AlNafisi’s Thirty-year Sleep
By the end of the 1990s, the Islamist wave had reached its ebb. In 1988 Iraq invaded Kuwait…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar5 min read
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Reframing Eritrea’s Post-Independence Paradox
For more than three decades, the story of Eritrea has been told in a narrow and predictable register.…
Beyan Negash8 min read
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Eritrea’s Missing Architects: The Intellectual Void Behind a Crippled Nation-Building
Eritrea’s liberation struggle stands as one of the most extraordinary military victories of the modern era. In 1991,…
Semere T Habtemariam5 min read
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Revolution: from Zanzibar to Zufar to Eritrea
The young may not know Tanganyika or Zanzibar, but they know Tan-Zan-ia. Tanganyika was the mainland country, and…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar5 min read
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Eritrea’s Succession Crisis: A Nation on the Brink
In the long arc of Eritrean history, few moments have been as ominous as the present. The country…
Semere T Habtemariam4 min read
