Author Archives: Assimba

By Yilma Bekele  By all accounts the minority based dictatorial regime in Ethiopia is in big trouble. Circumstances in the neighborhood are a bit disconcerting to Meles and company. You can tell from the flurry of activity being orchestrated the … Continue reading →

Obo Arada Abashawl   –  May 13, 2011   The signs of the time: Cooperation or Confrontation (CC)? Introduction On April 22, 2011, on Good Friday, I have attended a book signing ceremony by Professor Bereket H. Sellasie. The book is … Continue reading →

Hama Tuma   Back in 2006, I wrote a short story called The Case of the Criminal Walk in which I lampooned the Meles Zenawi regime’s ridiculous ethnic bantustanization of Ethiopia. In the story, a man who had walked outside … Continue reading →

 By Elias Mengesha (Heppenheim-Germany) The recent campaign of the Meles regime throughout the Diaspora to raise funds by selling bonds and using the proceeds to build a dam on the Blue Nile river has met fierce resistance. It’s ironic to … Continue reading →

  Hama Tuma Dogs and cats as pets live much better than most Africans—this is no news really. And yet, the depravity and cruelty of it all continues to amaze. Consider one newspaper report below: “The air kisses were flying, … Continue reading →

By Yilma Bekele When you take an object apart to see how it works, or take software and disassemble it to locate the source code it is referred to as reverse engineering. Basically what you are doing is inverting the … Continue reading →

As one of the important treasures of our country, Blue Nile has been playing a major role in our lives and that of our ancestors. A lot has been written and said about Blue Nile and i am not intending … Continue reading →

By Yilma Bekele Being an Ethiopian has always been difficult. The bad news is, it is not going to get any easier. Two weeks ago I found out it can be taken away too. It has come to a point … Continue reading →

  By Hama Tuma The Western machine of demonization and disinformation is huge, very, very huge. The absolute control of the media and its unhealthy impact on the world has been documented by the likes of Chomsky and Michael Moore … Continue reading →

   By Yilma Bekele By all accounts the minority based dictatorial regime in Ethiopia is in big trouble. Circumstances in the neighborhood are a bit disconcerting to Meles and company. You can tell from the flurry of activity being orchestrated … Continue reading →