What Has Unity Got to Do with Age?
Across Eritrean political discourse—especially within the diaspora—one argument has gathered unmistakable momentum: that leadership of the opposition, and…
Semere T Habtemariam9 min read
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The Eritrean Opposition: Thirty Years of Potential and Paralysis
A thematic analysis of the Eritrean opposition’s structural weaknesses, historical patterns, and political challenges after three and half decades of struggle.
Semere T Habtemariam11 min read
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The Moment the Ghedli Lost Its Soul (Part II)
A detailed historical analysis of the demographic surge, battlefield pressures, factional politics, and organizational breakdown that transformed Eritrea’s liberation struggle in the late 1970s and early 1980s, culminating in the institutionalization of…
Semere T Habtemariam14 min read
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The Merchants of Division: Faith, Fanaticism, and Rationality
For decades we have appealed for national unity, peaceful coexistence, and rational public discourse. Yet fanaticism, intolerance, and hate continue to poison our civic space. Is religion truly the problem—or is it…
Saleh "Gadi" Johar5 min read
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A Regime We Hate, an Opposition We Despise: Why Eritrea Needs a New Political Imagination
Eritrea, Eritrean politics, regime and opposition, political imagination, national service reform, indefinite national service, Eritrean youth, civic renewal, democratic transition, transitional justice, strategic neutrality, Eritrean diaspora, governance reform, authoritarianism, opposition fragmentation, political…
Semere T Habtemariam10 min read
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The Wound and the Cure: How Nehnan Elamanan Damaged Eritrea’s National Unity — and What a Truthful Manifesto Could Have Built Instead
Semere T Habtemariam8 min read
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The Three-Nakfa Gaze: When Poverty Is Put on Display
“Once deprivation is renamed ‘culture,’ it becomes protected from criticism. What appears as heritage can quietly function as…
Dr. Filmon Wolde9 min read
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When Liberation Becomes a Cage: Eritrea’s Unlearned Lessons
Eritrea’s tragic trajectory—after one of the most heroic and costly struggles for independence in modern African history—remains one…
Semere T Habtemariam6 min read
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Power, Image, and Machiavellian Survival (7)
Giants and Lilliputians of the HOA: Power, Image, and Machiavellian Survival Part Seven Introduction The central argument of…
Semere T Habtemariam7 min read
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Giants and Lilliputians: Haile Selassie and President Isaias Afwerki (Part 2)
Power, Image, and Machiavellian Survival: The Body as a Mirror of Power To understand Isaias Afwerki’s psychology, one…
Semere T Habtemariam34 min read
