Welcome Home Trilogy
A Trilogy Project – that ended up as perpetual work in progress only to be recovered fortuitously after…
Abdulkader O. Ali9 min read
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Teashop culture
I have a habit of reading the ads on the Starbucks bulletin board as I wait for my…
Awate Team9 min read
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Tens of Newly Arrived Eritreans Flood Ethiopia
[Gedab News, Dec 26, 2021] Reports from Ethiopia indicate that since the beginning of 2020, more than 65,000 Eritrean escapees…
Gedab News2 min read
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The Story of the #BlueEritrea Flag
Today, I hope the restless would stay calm as I narrate a basic history of the Eritrean flag–the…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar11 min read
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“Goush the Shepherd Did It”
In a village council, when it was on a consultation break, a restless young man interrupted and said,…
Awate Team9 min read
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Global Initiative to Empower Eritrean Grassroots Movement (GI)
Proposal for forming legitimately elected representative of Diaspora Eritreans Global Initiative to Empower Eritrean Grassroots Movement (GI) December…
Global Initiative16 min read
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Tug Of War
When a country faces a risk of war and invasion, the best precaution is to strengthen is national…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar10 min read
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Eritrea, Ethiopia’s Hostage
Anyone who went through the miseries and cruelties of the successive Ethiopian occupation (Haile Selassie’s and Mengistu’s) followed…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar8 min read
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The Era of PFDJ-Stupidity
This is excerpts from my Negarit 151, a presentation of Carlo Cippola’s book, “The 5 Basic Laws of…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar4 min read
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The Six-Husbands of Eritrea
In the Tigrinya language we do not have separate words for sebay, as in husband, and sebaay, as…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar8 min read
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National Integrative Council of Eritrea-USA
This essay is written to help alleviate the current unifying discourses of Eritreans. My previous, rough draft piece, “GiE-Eritrean…
Amanuel ‘Aman’ Yitbarek25 min read
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Hafeez Saaddin Mohamed Badlay: a tribute
Grief struck the Eritrean community in Melbourne following the sudden death of Hafeez Saaddin Mohamed Badlay, one of…
Dr. Salah I Jimi4 min read
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Eritrea and the Ethiopian Civil war
[9 mnts. reading] Writers or speakers who discuss everything under the sun should not shy away from raising…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar9 min read
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Brief Eulogy to Osman Mohammed Ismail
Yesterday, early morning of the 4th of November 2021, Eritrea and its people have once again lost one…
Ismail Ali Ahmad4 min read
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“Time Traps History in a Lie”
[this article was first published in Feb 24, 2021] Dear Awate Nation. I have been AWOL from my…
Aklilu Zere14 min read
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Negarit 148: ብሰላም ዕረፍ – Remembering a friend – ارقد في سلام
Eulogy for a departed friend, mourning in my own way and cursing the PFDJ//Saleh
Saleh "Gadi" Johar1 min read
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Of Guerilla Diplomacy and Granary Courtship
Of Guerrilla Diplomacy and Granary Courtship (ኩሽማን ደርሆ ኣብ ኣፍ ቆፎ) on Eritrean American mask-less diplomacy, with satirical…
Haile S.8 min read
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Casualty and Effect
Living in Eritrea, far from the Sea, I only knew canned Sardines. Then I went to Massawa and…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar9 min read
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The Story of Eritrean Liberation Front’s Book of Martyrs
“I wonder if anyone knows or remembers Tedros Tesfai Tedla” Degiga revealed his inner thoughts. “He was an…
Dawit Mesfin14 min read
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“The World Is Against Us,” Eritrea’s St Alamin
A few people were mad because I criticized Saint Alamin, the Secretary of the PFDJ. They insisted that…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar20 min read
