Category: Videos
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The Era of Flashy Pastors
Parents miss their children. Aunt Lemlem had two sons, Saleh and Arabi, who left for Egypt for education, leaving the parents alone in the house. Arabi died soon, but Saleh occasionally wrote them letters addressed to our postbox #39, which I delivered to them. Aboy Berhe was the postmaster; his assistant, Tekheste, received the letter-bag
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The Massawa-Mekele-Addis-Ababa Railway
Back in the day, aboy Tewelde had a masonry stone hauling truck. To this day, no car company has built a truck like it. It was slow, therefore it doesn’t need brakes, it’ didn’t have lights because it moved only during the day; it didn’t have hoot because aboy Tewelde would take his head out
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Like Rip Van Winkle!
How long has it been since you left your home country? Are your memories intact? Do you have friends and family you keep in touch with? Maybe your childhood friends or your relatives? Do you tear up or burst into tears with nostalgia, especially when you hear songs, or mundane events that remind you of
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Broken News
There’re two types of narcotics: Downers cause depression, insomnia, and melancholy; Uppers cause euphoria, excitement, and relaxation. When intoxicated, some laugh hysterically for no reason; others become miserable. They may remember incidents from the past—my great-great-grandmother died—and cry. When I was a kid, I lost a pair of shoes and cried. The sun is too
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Biniam Girmay: He was ours and he’s still ours
The three-card Monte, known to us as Telate-werega, is a classical swindling trick. There is also the wheel of fortune, known as shertek bertek in some areas, and shetekh-betekh in others. That is the localized pronunciation from the Arabic shortek-bekhtek, meaning ‘your decision and luck.’ Close to the grand Mosque in Agordat, crowds gathered
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A 40-Years Journey From Communism to Theocracy
Until mid-1970, the members of the liberation organizations were mainly from the countryside: innocent, traditional, honest, brave, and disciplined fighters. They had no qualms about sacrificing their lives for the cause of freedom and liberty. However, by the time of independence, combatants from the cities had increased drastically and they maintained a considerable presence, particularly
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The Eritrean Ruling Party Apologizes to Meley
Twelve years ago, a creative friend came up with a T-shirt design of the original Eritrean flag; I used it as my profile. Facebook has a Memories section where it brings up old posts. You can either ignore it to be forgotten or give it a new life by commenting on it. That is what
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Is Eritrea’s Economy Vibrant?
Gerghis Drar’s is an Eritrean who presents basic financial tutorials—stock market, retail consumer financing, investments, debts, and politics. That caught my attention and I have been following him for a while. A few months ago, when the PFDJ propaganda started to proliferate aggressively, I thought it was time to confront the misleading propaganda with facts—a
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Reverse Season on Migration
Dilemma: do we welcome those who abandon the PFDJ, forgetting the pain they inflicted on us because we dared to oppose the regime, and move on, or should we insist on holding them accountable for their past actions? Today, many are facing a dilemma after Abdulkadir Hamdan, a journalist and veteran of the struggle era,
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The Shirt-Color Rivalry
Eritrea is the home of diverse social groups, a country built on an idea. And the citizens are content on being Eritrean, despite the tribulations that have become an alibi for those aiming at dismantling, deforming, and making it a fascist state. For a while, known bigoted elements are recklessly attempting to destroy it; they
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Negarit 273: Citizenship and Identity Chaos
The most disturbing debate many uninformed disrupters were engaged in was on the difference between identity or citizenship and which supersedes the other! There are many views on that but generally, an identity is composed of many layers, including national identity. While personal identity describes, among others, the individual’s culture, tribal, ethnic, and linguistic affiliation,
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Will they die or be martyred?
Listening or reading Negarit requires patience, please bring some additional patience from your storage. If you are short-tempered, with little or no patience, please pretend you are patient. Talking like responsible adults is fun. My next few episodes might be a bit unsettling for some; I am planning a sequel to address a few issues
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Yemane Gebreab And Associates
anyone who sneaked out can sneak in I do not know much about soccer, but I gather most Eritreans support either Arsenal or Chelsea. I know about that from Bakri Humed’s YouTube channel. Please remember I am bringing the teams as an example, because we often say our discourse has become akin to fans rooting
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Is PFDJ Honest or It’s a Gimmick?
“Farmers work the land; Merchants trade in the market (freely).” That profound saying is attributed to the first proclamation the Italian colonization government issued when it established itself in Massawa. Eritreans accepted that wholeheartedly, though it was issued by their colonizers. Sadly, they are denied that freedom by those who supposedly freed them, and that
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Alemseghed Makes a Pilgrimage to Keren
comments on a speech Alemseged made in Keren.
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Music That Resides In Our Memories
The basic translation of the lyrics in the video… The land of goodness, Africa is my country The land of plenty, the land of pride, is my country See the faces of my fathers, And their raised foreheads Principles do not change. I’ll lead the procession and tell the world, “I am African; I am
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Bluebeard and Muawiya’s Hair
In 4th or 5th grade, we learned from an English textbook, an Oxford English series, or something like that. The books were full of captivating stories that aroused our curious young minds. I remembered one pf the stories after I saw a Twitter clip. It was a picture of a French, Israeli soldier. He had
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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