What Do WE Want and Do Now (that Fortress T-TPLF is Under a State of Emergency) (Part IV) [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: This is the fourth installment in a series I have called “What Do WE Want and Do NOW?”. The serialized commentaries have three aims: 1) take stock of the impact of the recent uprisings in Ethiopia against the backdrop...
How I'm Made a Dissident, Emotional Man and Usual Suspect [BefeQadu Z. Hailu]
[WARNING: If a personal note bores you, don’t read this.]
I was 11 years old boy when EPRDF took power. As a kid, I had a confused feeling during the time the then ‘Woyane’ controlled Addis on Ginbot 20. During the nights before,...
Redwan Hussein Embarrassed the TPLF [By LJDemissie]
“The most ethical way to deal with an unethical situation would be to simply say: ‘we did
something wrong.’ But nobody in a family like mine [the hatemonger regime of the Tigrayan
People’s Liberation Front (the TPLF)] would ever respond...
Addis Ababa Master Plan? No, the T-TPLF Masters’ Plan! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
Author’s Note: What’s in a label? Well, “What’s in a name? That which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet…”? That may be true, provided, of course, those roses are not roses raised on the land-grabbed farmlands...
Fly, Ethiopia, Fly…[Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]
“What if they were really set free?”
That was the question The Economist asked in the headline of its article last week about Ethiopians.
Its response was equally breathtaking:
“If the government let people breathe, they might fly.”
These...
Obama and the circus of clowns in Ethiopia [By Abebe Gellaw]
The historic state visit of U.S. President Barack Obama to Ethiopia has just accomplished what was expected all along. On the one hand, TPLF and its cronies tried to use it as a spectacle full of absurdities, comedic political circus and amateurish...