NAKFA ||| The history of resistance and perseverance.
ERITREA-The Story of Nakfa It was in 2009 that I first wrote about my trip to Nakfa, a village in Eritrea whose name evokes as much emotion as triggers both joyful and painful memories. As the people of Eritrea get ready to celebrate the 30th anniversary…
March 8: International Women’s Day
March 8: Celebrating Women The 8th of March was chosen to be the International Women’s Day, and be celebrated every year, as a tribute to an American textile factory workers who in that particular day of March the 8th, 1908, staged a demonstration…
INTREVIEW ||| Freminatos’s most notable picture can be found in Eritrea’s bank-notes
INTERVIEW with artist Freminatos Estifanos We have for you today an amazing photographer: Freminatos Estifanos. He believes that photos have the ultimate power of challenging the unstoppable time itself by confining occurrences, reactions,…
Brief Historical Notes on Degiat Bahta Hagos and Italian Colonialism and Native Resistance in Eritrea
Brief Historical Notes on Degiat Bahta Hagos and “The Bite of the White Snake”: Italian Colonialism and Native Resistance in Eritrea By Elias Amare [This essay was original written in 2011 for the online Eritrean discussion forum, Tsedal.]…
The Evidence of Oligocene Elephants from Eritrea
The Evidence of Oligocene Elephants (27 million years) from Eritrea – Facts about Elephants Elephants are massive mammals. They can reach a height of about 3 – 4 meters and a weight of 4,000 -7,000 kilograms. These massive creatures are known…
HISTORY ||| Eritrea`s priceless shades of past
Eritrea`s ancient history is markedly very complex Cultural Heritage is an expression of the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation, including customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions and…
The Last Moment of the HERO
The Last Moment of the Hero 27 years ago, on day 9 of the month February, at the dusky hour the hero who conquered my soul has left this planet to re-join the likes of him. His soul speaks inside me out loud as if I am his reincarnated body. Never did I…
ERITREA ||| Massawa Bella PHOTO Gallery
MASSAWA Port on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea Massawa, also known as Mitsiwa, Miṣṣiwa), Batsiʿ, is a city on the Red Sea coast of Eritrea located at the northern end of the Gulf of Zula beside the Dahlak Archipelago. An important port for many centuries,…
[ERITREA] Fenkil: Endurance and Fortitude Redefined
Fenkil: Endurance and Fortitude Redefined History has come to many places, has stayed awhile and, after its departure, has rendered those places famous. In Eritrea’s saga, perhaps no place has taken on greater historic importance than the Northern…
[AUDIO] Dr. Edward Denison about Modernist architecture in Asmara, Eritrea
Modernist architecture in Asmara, Eritrea ©Edward Denison, 2015 UNESCO World Heritage Sites are natural and cultural legacies of “outstanding value to humanity…irrespective of the territory on which they are located”. Africa has less than a third of…