Opinion

By Dawit Mesfin I have a friend who served as a British soldier during WWII whose stories I find quite fascinating. In fact, I have...

Woldeab Woldemariam, a Visionary Eritrean Patriot, Biography By Dawit Mesfin Now I know why a monument has been erected for Alexander Pushkin, the renowned Russian poet, in...

Robert 'Rowbow' Ochola(Photo Petterik Wiggers) Introduction: With a new constitution since 2010 and with social media as a new tool for communication, Kenyan politics has been...

Introduction: Kenyan former chief justice Willy Mutunga speaks out. “We must not give up on revolutionary optimism”, he warns in this piece. Since a new...

Only a strong judiciary can guarantee progress

By Dawit Mesfin Book review DELIVERANCE: A Tale of Colliding Passions and the Muse of Forgiveness A Historical Novel by Bereket Habte Selassie The story Dr Bereket Habte Selassie...

“Let the horror begin”. That may be a good summary of the reactions in Africa regarding the victory of Donald Trump. Where Obama was Africa’s hero,...

War is better than a bad peace, writes Peter Adwok Nyaba. He is a  long standing South Sudanese intellectual, former minister of Higher Education...

By Abraham Zere, head of Pen Eritrea It initially sounded like a joke; gradually it got serious and then tragic. A decade and a half...