The paradox and pretensions of American “Culture” of democracy in Africa

BY MULUGETA GUDETA (Part II) It has always been a typical behavior of American strategist to fill the vacuum left by other powers in Africa and elsewhere. In the Horn of Africa... Read more »

The paradox and pretensions of American “Culture” of democracy in Africa

PART I US President Joe Biden last week hosted a democracy preaching event where leaders of some selected African countries were invited to attend a reading from the “Bible of democracy according... Read more »

The glimpse of crimes done to humanity in Northern Ethiopia by the TPLF – the silence of the international community

Short Story BY JOSEPH SOBOKA The sky was overcast, the rain had just stopped. People are running up and down as if something of urgency compelled them to act like that. Someone... Read more »

Devoted artists coloring Addis Ababa

Painter Solomon Kifle graduated from Alle School of Fine Arts and Design in 2017. He is a full time studio artist. He founded Addis Street Art Foundation, which has been working on... Read more »

The Crafty New Scramble for Africa

BY JOSEPH SOBOKA The word scramble, as a concept, contains a negative sentiment of greed where each individual struggles to get something, that does not belong to him, as much or more... Read more »

Washington’s ride on a ‘Trojan Horse’ down the diplomatic abyss

 Part II Professional liars and Washington hawks Telling lies and killing innocent people are the two most important specialties of the TPLF since its birth. Washington and the West believe the lies... Read more »

Washington’s ride on a ‘Trojan Horse’ down the diplomatic abyss

Part I By supporting the TPLF in the ongoing Ethiopian national resistance war to preserve the independence and territorial integrity of Ethiopia, both TPLF and Washington, and the West by extension, have... Read more »

Evolution of patriotism among Ethiopian artists from enthusing to joining army

Many Ethiopians are fond of Tilahun Gessesse’s song Enat Hager Ethiopia. The whole artistic ingredients this song is composed of are tuneful and flawless. That is why unconsciously tears well up in... Read more »

Wole Soyinka publishes a new novel, 48 years after his last prose fiction

BY MULUGETA GUDETA Your bounty threatens me, Mandela, that taut Drumskin of your heart on which our millions Dance. I fear we latch, fat leeches On your veins. Wole Soyinka “Mandela’s Earth... Read more »

Pan-Africanism: A spiritual weapon against Western neocolonialism

As Ethiopia’s fascist invasion in 1936 galvanized an international response in support of the Ethiopian people, so does the current neocolonial machinations against Ethiopia to impose a kind of American-led covert invasion... Read more »