Tag: African leadership

  • Giants and Lilliputians: Haile Selassie and President Isaias Afwerki (Part 2)

    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 must first confront the contradiction written across his body. His appearance—spare, stiff, and strangely careless—betrayed none of the humility expected of a revolutionary. Nor did it reflect the ethos of the Tegadelti, whose plainness was once a

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  • Penicillin Overdose Killed the Camel

    Penicillin Overdose Killed the Camel

    Dr. Abiy Ahmed keeps me thinking these days, though not in the way I wanted to. During the struggle era, when there were not enough qualified doctors, dressers and nurses became doctors by default. Their kit was modest: a few vials of penicillin for wounds and infections, chloroquine for malaria, and vitamin K and blood

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  • Eritrea’s Succession Crisis: A Nation on the Brink

    In the long arc of Eritrean history, few moments have been as ominous as the present. The country stands on the edge of a precipice—not because of natural calamities, foreign invasions, or economic collapse, but because of a dangerous void at its center: the absence of a succession plan. Eritrea’s political order is not built

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