Category: Negarit
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Negarit 235: Consulting The Mirror
Philosophy is crucial for understanding life and nature, creation, and death. It also helps us find answers to questions we raise about the PFDJ’s oppression of Eritreans, their cruelty, and their warlike behavior. Religious fanatics, and primitive superstitious people, discourage philosophy, they think it’s a vulgar word and an exercise in vanity. Why? Nouns identify
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Negarit 230: Campaigns of Brigades
Whenever there’s something on the news, writers are pressured to comment on it. However, I do not comment instantaneously without knowing the background or having enough information about it—sometimes the topic doesn’t inspire or interest me and I do not like to sound robotic— repeating what everyone and their uncles are saying. Yet, many rush
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Negarit 229: Peaceful Coexistence
Quite a few people admonished me for not having a face-to-face debate with a man nick named “Aweqe.” I do not debate bigots but stay at a distance from supremacists and fascists to avoid their toxicity. Let’s start the fumigation My message is to and about a certain Aweqe who openly promotes supremacism. His bigoted
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Negarit 228: The Shameless and Insolent
Some ex-Eritrean elements (according to their own declaration) think the Eritrean society is on a deathbed and on its last breath; they are it’ll nurse its wounds and rise up . When it does, it will frustrate their dreams of a puritan racist state on the rubble of the hard-earned Eritrean statehood. That’s why they
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Negarit 225: Remembering The Unforgotten
What does it mean to remember a martyr when their images haunt us day in and day out? Do we really forget them that we need someone to remind us of them? And why is remembering a martyr so mechanical—why do we carry candles and shout empty slogans, suwaatna bkhbri yezekeru, and stuff like that?
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Negarit 224: Enough and Not-Enough
Every time I attend an event, I report to my audience about the event and my general observation-I hope you do not expect a serious boring reportage. This time my travel was so hectic, mainly because it included the Atlanta Airport which they should have called railway station. I do not like that airport, not
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Civil and Military (Negarit 223)
The most serious social problem in many countries, including the Horn of Africa, is that the nations are so militarized. That has led to the morphing of the military life in the civilian space. And since the regimes depend on brute forces as an alternative to a legitimate governing mandate, military behavior and attitude take
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Donkey-Kick Diplomacy
Isaias started his latest speech on the occasion of the 32nd Anniversary of the Independence of Eritrea as follows: “allow me to express my congratulations to the people of Eritrea inside the country and abroad, as well as to the friends of Eritrea and all free peoples in the world.” “The Free people of the
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China’s Great Wall, Eritrea’s Fence Wall
Last Saturday, Isaias hastily met the Sudanese envoy Ambassador Daffalah, and soon left for China. Not many discussed that visit, but many Eritrean (and Ethiopian) social media platforms were buzzing with Isaias’ visit to China. The Eritrean fence wall concluded his visit and has already returned home. PFDJ media and its affiliate trolls were so
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Independence Day Blues and Illegitimate Rulers
On the occasion of the approaching Eritrean Independence Day, I would like to suggest some meaningful activities. Eritreans have danced enough despite the sufferings. They celebrated Independence Day religiously, always counting, and now we have reached the 32nd anniversary. What does numbers mean if the real oppression is ignored and we only focus on the
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Unelected President, Imposed Pundit
Isais Afwerki of Eritrea: an unelected dictator tells Sudan how to solve their problems
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The Bloody African Horn Region
This week, both Eid and Fasiga came a few days apart; on this occasion, I wish Christians and Muslims who finished Lent and Ramadan, Happy Holidays time. Hopefully, the fasting cleared some bad air and you will have spiritually fulfilling days ahead. For Eritreans, when Christian and Muslim feasts coincide, they become optimistic believing it
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Katanga and Welkait Wars
A few days ago, I read an article by Ahmed Suleiman (Chatham House) in which he examined the Sesame supply chain around the Welkait region. It reminded me of Welkait that I knew about since childhood, and I decided to write and talk about it. In 1960 the region of Katanga under the leadership of
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It Is Ramadan, Make Peace With the PFDJ!
At least for a month we have to try hard to live a spiritual life. It’s in our tradition, culture, and religion. Therefore, in the spirit of Ramadan I am making peace with the Eritrean regime for a day. Ramadan is here and it triggers memories, not only of prayers and supplication but also its
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Colorful Characters: Aboy Shutuphouse and Abdelwasie
I had no shortage of wise, witty, and humorous people in my life. Such people are a blessing; they help us see life beyond the grim colors, in vivid technicolor. If you feel jealous, I will not blame you. I understand. That’s why I hope someday I will be able to produce and share their
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Temazight and Eritrea
North Africa needs to be invaded by Eritrean scholars, it’s more worthy than the unexplainable obsession with Pushkin! So far, I haven’t seen any study that makes him relevant to Eritrea—culturally or otherwise. I believe no one knows his ancestral relation with Eritrea; I suspect it’s an invention by a Russian or Turkish scholar that
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The PFDJ’s Graduation Ceremonies
The PFDJ regularly announced the graduation of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists and general medicine. It also announces the graduation of engineers, journalists, and a host of other disciplines. I will take two of those, the medical graduates, and journalists. Medical Professionals If Eritrea graduates such a big number of medical professionals, why is the medical
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It’s All Music But Samuel Zerzgi Wins
Today I am encouraging music that addressed the mind, not the body—a mental music not physical and I will present you (Eritrea represented by Samuel Zerzghi, and his song Hada. Then I will take you to Botswana, and a song called Magadigadi by MmaAusi lekoma, followed by a journey from Bahrain to France to Edith
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Cents Become Millions – 2023 Fundraising
Today’s Negarit is the once-a-year special edition, the usual appeal to you to help ease the burden. A few days ago, someone said I “would do anything for YouTube money.” Such comments are common particularly by the PFDJ cult. It’s a prevalent misconception among many people. It’s expected in societies with rampant illiteracy and crippling
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Eritrea: Tell the Truth and Sleep on the Railroad
There is a timeless Eritrean saying, “Haqqi Tezaribka ab megedi Babur deqqs”, (say the truth and sleep on the railway). It’s an exaggerated statement that encourages people to speak the truth and if they did, even the train will not run over them. I did try it a few days ago, I slept on the