topic: Africa

100 Years on Asmara's Main Street
April 18, 2012
At the beginning of February, twenty-two years ago, the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front’s (EPLF) liberated the port city of Massawa. The...
retrospectives
Joining Africa: From Anthills to Asmara
April 13, 2012
An excerpt from chapter six, “Rome’s Rome,” I traveled as a kind of pilgrim. I wanted to witness the site of one of Africa’s greatest,...
retrospectives
Three Eritrean Painters
March 26, 2012
Featuring selected works by Michael Adonai, Ermias Ekube and Yegizaw Michael. Michael Adonai was born in 1962, in Asmara. He joined the...
Poetry
Four Poems by Mohamed A. Eno
March 16, 2012
Excerpted from a forthcoming book entitled Corpses on the Menu: Blood, Bullets and Bones Graduate of Clan War Academy Born in the eruption...
retrospectives
Three Eritrean Plays
March 16, 2012
Three Eritrean students working on their MA degree in Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds in 2001 and 2002, decided to go a bit...
retrospectives
Who Needs a Story? Translations of contemporary Eritrean Poetry in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic
March 8, 2012
An excerpt from the foreword to Who Needs a Story? Who Needs a Story? is an anthology of poetry written in Tigrinya, Tigre and Arabic over...
retrospectives
The Freedom of the Writer
February 27, 2012
Twenty years ago, in November 1992, Ghirmai Negash delivered “The Freedom of the Writer” as a speech at the then Officers Club in Asmara,...
retrospectives
Grazmatch Tsegu
February 15, 2012
This reprint has been published with the permission of the publisher, The Red Sea Press In the mid-fifties, Villaggio Paradiso was a lot...
retrospectives
From the Barrel of a Gun, Etc.
January 25, 2012
Mao Zedong may actually not have coined the phrase, "Political power flows from the barrel of a gun." It appears in a 1938 text he wrote,...