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  • An Ethiopian in Eritrea: An Ode To Asmarinos

    An Ethiopian in Eritrea: An Ode To Asmarinos

    The author, an Ethiopian, is a very good friend.  Has been one for a dozen years.  And by “friend” of course I mean social media friend, not the kind you call to help you carry furniture when you are moving.  So, here’s his report about Eritrea which he compiled after going to the usual places.  …

  • Just Another Friday (Comboni, Asmara, 1974)

    Just Another Friday (Comboni, Asmara, 1974)

    When I was a young boy and people talked about Tripoli and Trenta Cinque (1935), my eyes glazed over. I am sure you have interesting stories to tell, old man, but it can’t possibly be more interesting than my game, ashekakat Alem*, so buzz off! So now, when GG reminded me about Kagnew Station, I…

  • It Knows You Are Deaf

    It Knows You Are Deaf

    Publisher: This Is Being Published Until The Author Starts Being: It Knows You Are Deaf By Desert Wasp Resurrected  Wounds Don’t Open Up To Bleed They Stand Tall To Announce Your Own Death When GoD Speaks To You IT Knows You Are  Deaf Little Girls Won’t Jump Ropes Eating Cotton Candy From Tripoli Is Tooth…

  • Please Hold While I Transfer Your Call To Nobody

    Please Hold While I Transfer Your Call To Nobody

    Thanks for calling the hotline. Songs won’t do it.  You can go all pop and repeat “And that’s the sound of me not calling you back” and even admit Lizzo is clever, but it is just a song and it will be over in minutes.  Nor will Tigrinya music and its earnest sameness do, with…

  • Get To Know Your Africa

    Get To Know Your Africa

    Your continent has five subregions.   And it is your continent: if you didn’t think God has a sense of humor consider this: Eritreans, Ethiopians and all Habesha-types are fond of saying “I am not black, I am Habesha!”  So, who is the world’s most famous Eritrean now? An American of Eritrean ancestry.  And what does…

  • Severe Gender Gap in Black US Postsecondary Education

    Severe Gender Gap in Black US Postsecondary Education

    Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. – Malcolm X There were 4,891,888 postsecondary degrees conferred in the United States in academic year 2015-16. By gender, this breaks down to 2,036, 307 for males and 2,855,581 for females.  That is a 42% to 58% ratio…

  • Ode To Our Webmaster

    Ode To Our Webmaster

    What’s a few months between friends? Favors calling you to spend your say, like you have something to say u never did not since tomorrow was distant yesterday Time is infinite, space runs out for the frivolous and the devout thighs are sexier seen through a Hookah fog So wrote Juror # 9 on his…

  • The Very Excitable Sisi

    The Very Excitable Sisi

    According to Egyptian President Abdulfetah Sisi: December 30: Egypt demands Sudan be excluded from Nile negotiations January 9 – Egypt’s growing supply concerns January 16 – Egypt does not want war with Sudan and Ethiopia January 18 – Egypt raises extreme concern about Nile Dam with Ethiopia January 30 – Egypt has solved ALL its…

  • The Missing Head

    The Missing Head

    Left to right: that guy from that country who overthrew the general; the one who stole an election; the one who amended the constitution to run again; the one who inherited the throne; the revolutionary who overthrew the counter-revolutionary Second row, right to left: the president who is the ally but now is in war…

  • Eritrea This Week 20160612

    Eritrea This Week 20160612

    [spider_facebook id=”4″]There were two Eritrean headlines this week: (1) the Commission of Inquiry on Human Rights in Eritrea (CoI-E) published its report based on its 12-month inquiry and it said that it found that crimes committed by Eritrean officials constitute “crimes against humanity”; (2) Eritrea and Ethiopia had a military clash along their common border.…

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights Amended

    Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1 الإعلان العالمي لحقوق الإنسان خاص بارتريا ኣድማሳዊ ኣዋጅ ሰብኣዊ መሰላት

  • A Tale of Two Colonies

    The Atlantic ROBERT D. KAPLAN APRIL 2003 ISSUE GLOBAL Source: The Atlantic. Click here for the 2003 colonial mindset of Isaias Afwerki   Yemen The ruins of the 3,000-year-old desert capital of the kingdom of Saba (the biblical Sheba), outside the Yemeni city of Ma’rib, should be overrun by tourists. Mud-brick towers tilt crazily on…