Tag: UNESCO

  • Schooling and Social Capital Among Eritrean Refugees

    Schooling and Social Capital Among Eritrean Refugees

    Revolutionary Schooling and Social Capital Among Eritrean Refugees in Sudan A remarkable educational experiment took root in the arid borderlands of Kassala, Sudan, in the shadow of Eritrea’s long and bitter struggle for independence. In 1977, the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), in collaboration with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the Sudanese

    Read more

  • Massawa’s Cultural Heritage: Through the Prism of PFDJ

    Massawa’s Cultural Heritage: Through the Prism of PFDJ

    This investigative report was published on June 23, 2003. Two days ago, Asmara, Eritrea’s capital city was designated a “World Heritage site” for its buildings that were built by Mussolini’s Italian Fascist colonizers less than a century ago, and are affectionately promoted as “Art Deco”. Nothing indigenous about it. The 2003 Gedab investigative report focused on Massawa

    Read more