Every ounce counts, matters!

Many wait for others, For serenity or peace, To breathe a sigh of relief, And to lead a happy life, But they themselves are responsible, To make things quite possible, Yes, Every... Read more »

 Beyond gaming and scrolling-the new internet culture that matters

Let us start by acknowledging the undeniable: the Internet has brought about a technological revolution that is, perhaps for the first time in history, that is benefitting both the rich and the... Read more »

The Tiger in the sky: Brigadier General Legesse Tefera

 (Adoration of a hero is magnifies his footprints for would-be heroes to follow suit)   (This article is adopted from the biography about Brgadier-General Legesse written by Major Eyob Abate in Amharic in... Read more »

 All the way back to the roots  All the way back to the roots

It is not surprizing to see many children who have lost their family in different situations being adopted by people from the cultures of distant worlds and raised by new parents. As... Read more »

Post-Colonial hangovers in Africa- tradition versus modern education

The contradictions between tradition and modernity are nowhere more pronounced than in Africa’s educational systems. The struggle is vividly expressed in the struggle between traditional African educational systems which have been and... Read more »

Culinary tourism, Ethiopian cuisine and neglected potential

Culinary tourism or food tourism and sometimes called gastronomy tourism is perhaps the least known or least practiced type of tourism. Culinary tourism is defined as “the exploration of food as the... Read more »

A herd mentality

If one pullsA sheep astrayThe flock is sureTo move that way.To fish in a troubled waterDe-constructing historyThwart we couldThe old social fabric of unityAnd create we shallA generationSuffering a crisis of identity!“Ask... Read more »

Dancing with the wind

Part III The traveler gazes at the landscape spread out before us that looks like the Promised Land which we read about in the Jewish Torah narratives. I could only read his... Read more »

Dancing with the wind

Part I Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges once said – “There are only four stories to tell: a love story between two people, a love story between three people, the struggle for... Read more »

THE MAN AND THE SNAIL

(A Short Moral Story) One day, a snail saw a man walking into the woods, then he began to scream for attention,“Mister! Mister! Come over here! Please, do me a favor! Mister!”... Read more »