So Long Dear Friend
[This memory is the memory of Ibrahim Negash, translated from Tigrinya into English by his younger brother Beyan Negash.]…
Beyan Negash7 min read
Nothing here yet.
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Book Review: The History of Bilen (by Dr. Jamil Idris)
Book Title:The History of Bilen, past and present Pages. : 245 Publisher: Dar Alma’arif, Aljeria, 2018 Language :…
Ismael Ibraheem Al-Mukhtar10 min read
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Celebrating Dr Saeed Forma
The last time I eulogized my friend Mebrahtu, I didn’t think I will do another one for a…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar7 min read
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My Uncle Malik Amber
The Siddis-Ahbash in the Gujarat and Maharashtra regions of India are of African ancestry. They were brought to…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar8 min read
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The Curse of Perpetual Civil Wars
The ghost of the ongoing civil war in our region will be a curse that will haunt us…
Beyan Negash7 min read
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Singers and Poets
About ten years ago there was a popular singer named Tarreqe. He had a unique voice. Until his…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar8 min read
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Ethiopia Prepares for a Negotiated Settlement
On Sunday, a two-day long pan-Ethiopian meeting concluded in Addis Ababa. The preparatory meeting elected a committee that…
Gedab News3 min read
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Proclamation No. 1
Last Friday, Abiy Ahmed released a few prisoners of conscience who posed a risk to his control of…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar7 min read
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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
