Category: Tebeges
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HardTalk: A Quest For Eritrean Blue Revolution
“The revolution has always in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution,” [Huey Newton] Introduction The wave of democratization which began after the fall of USSR in 1989, and that has continued until 2010 (the Arab Spring), has significantly brought the expansion of democracy on the one hand and the transformation
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Eritrea: A Victim of Modern Necropolitics
“My job is making windows where there were once walls” [Michel Foucault] Introduction In search of an integrative discourse for the Eritrean politics, within the dynamic setting of the international system in motion, this author will try to examine the Eritrean regime and the pattern of its politics in a different approach than the traditional
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HardTalk: Group Rights And Identity Politics
Introduction: The term “Identity politics” is popularized as a political discourse in the higher educational institutions, since 1970s. Identity politics was originally emerged as a way of consciousness raising among marginalized [social] groups and as means to empower those groups who felt oppressed by the society around them [1]. The more overtly pragmatic debates about
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Good Governance and The Challenges of Eritrean Cultural Diversity
“This essay was originally submitted to Awate as a contribution to a journal planned to be issued after the establishment of a foundation under the working name of Awate2020. It’s being posted here with permission of the publisher to add to the recent debates on the Awate Forum in regard to the topic of ‘individual
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Perceptions & Values: Transforming the Eritrean Minds
“Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your window on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.” —Alan Alda If you ask an artist what is the most difficult subject to paint while retaining true likeness, you are likely to get the answer, “myself” said
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The Allyship Model of Anti-Marginalization Struggle
“None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.” Goethe Dawit Mesfin’s recent article “All about self-liberation” has generated and stimulated discussion among the greatest notable minds of awate forum. The article and the debaters’ input provoked me to write this piece to enhance Dawit’s thesis of “self-liberation”, by framing it
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Stand up Before You Become A Victim Of The Beast
“Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him (her) last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured.” Winston Churchill The above quotation is from one of the finest political wits, Winston Churchill, which was said to the neutral states
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A Nation Born Out of A Struggle And Arguments Failed To Unite It’s Diversity
INTRODUCTION: In sociology and political studies, the term diversity describes differences by identifying features that includes ethnic classifications, ideological philosophies, religious beliefs, gender identity etc. And are measured by “diversity indexes” – a proportional ratio of accommodation for purposes of peaceful coexistence. In our contemporary life, diversity to some means “bio-diversity” and the existence of
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Know Your Enemy And Thyself: Act Accordingly
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle” [Sun Tzu] This is a
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Constitutional Reform And Reconciliation
Introduction:The major division of thoughts in philosophy is the relationship between “being” and “thinking” and the definition of what the world is consisting of – in primary instance. Materialism claims that, in the first instance – the world is just “a matter in motion” and our mind, awareness, and thoughts are secondary property of matter.
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Critiques And The Politics of Truth: “EASE” Demonstrated Afar’s Grievances
“No theory can develop without encountering a wall, and practice is necessary for piercing this wall” [Gilles Deleuze] Introduction On December 26 to 27, 2015, the “Global Eritrean Advocacy Network” (GEAN) had convened a conference in Cypress California [Gedab News, Dec. 30, 2015]. In the conference Ahmed Youssouf Mohamed, the chairman of the “Eritrean Afar
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Tunisian Model: Analogical Reasoning for Eritrea’s Democratic Transition
“We shall patiently bear the trials that fate impose on us. We shall work for others without rest” [Anton Chekhov, from his letter to Vanya,1899]. Introduction Emerging democratic governments in the third world would certainly have to confront a legacy of poverty, illiteracy, militarization, a society with multicultural mistrusts, and underdevelopments, that are caused by
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Decentralized Unitary Governance: A Poison Model Or A Panacea
Overview The terms “centralization” and “decentralization” as new political phenomenon for governmental structures came into usage in France in 1794 and 1820 respectively. After the French revolution, in the mid 1800, Alexis De Tocqueville wrote an article about “a push towards decentralization” but at the end it becomes the extension of centralization [1]. Tocqueville as
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Eritrea’s Prospect: Joining The league Of Hybrid Regimes
The war against superstition and totalitarian mentality is an endless war. In Protean form, it is fought and refought in every generation (Christopher Hitchens) For years we have debated on the nature of the Eritrean regime some opposing it and others giving it unreserved
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Eritrean Politics: A Proto-Version Of Never Land
Theorists and practitioners always have different perspectives. Theorists think about synchronism or simultaneous occurrences and assume reliable approaches. Practitioners on the far side think about copout and worry about collisions. Unfortunately, these two sets of views are not entirely compatible; there are many subtle issues that arise in the process of reconciling them. Therefore, leaders
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Critique of Pure Reason: Concepts Aren’t Ambiguity of Ostension
Critique of pure reason was the first book of Immanuel Kant in 1781. The purpose of authoring the book was to give new status to “reason” and new contours to “understandings,” in making analytic and synthetic judgment for shaping the reality around us. In doing that Kant tried to separate the “ideas of reason” from
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Democratic Coup In Eritrea: Unrealistic Utopian Project
[quote style=”4″ author=”Comte de Mirabeau“]When you undertake a revolution, the difficulty is not to make it go; it is to hold it in check.[/quote] Prelude In October 5, 2008, I called on the Eritrean Defense Force (EDF) to avoid the war and defend the rights of our people. In that article, I clearly stated without
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An Axe That Breaks Down: YG’S Diagnostic Fallacy
[quote style=”4″ author=”Anton Chekhov“]Don’t invent Suffering you have never experienced, and don’t paint Pictures you have never seen[/quote] Franz Kafka was quoted by the crusading noble laureate for literature, Nadine Gordimer, calling literature as “an ax to break up the frozen sea within us.” Writers and authors have the ability to break taboos within a
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U-Turns Regression: Two Opposition, Two Eritreas
“In truth, there is no pain but comfort, no fear but courage, no chaos but order, no betrayal but trust and no dishonor but the highest of accolades.” (Haile-TG) Prelude Politics has never been a matter of principles. It was and will be a matter of interest. It is not unusual to see political U-turns
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Political Dialogue Symposium Needed
[This is a speech presented on March 8, 2014 at the Eritrean Global Solidarity (EGS) Symposium, in the metro Washington-DC, on the general theme: Exploring possible scenario for Eritrean transition to democracy] The Current Situation of the Eritrean Political and Civic Struggle: The Need of Symposium for a Political Dialogue Dear Compatriots and Honorable guests,