The Eritrean Studies Review has become one of the premier journals for the discussion of scholarly issues on the Horn of Africa. The Review is a publication of the Eritrean Studies Association (ESA).
The Eritrean Studies Review has become one of the premier journals for the discussion of scholarly issues on the Horn of Africa. The Review is a publication of the Eritrean Studies Association (ESA) and is published twice a year.
...Poetry’s quality emanates more from natural gift than through education.Education adds depth and texture to what is endowed naturally; it cannot be a substitute for it.The 78 poems contained in this volume display an enchanting linguistic skill as well as express deep human emotions of love, hope , despair, and life’s other challenges...Kiros Yohannes’s pen turns the blood and sweat of suffering people into eloquently flowing ink...Two poems that touched my heart are written in memoriam to Yemane Gebremichael (Barya) and Russom Haile...
- from Dr. Bereket Habte Selassie's review of Kiros Yohannes' book of Tigrinya poetry I Own My Destiny
Most official institutions involved with refugees perceive repatriation as the most durable solution to the global refugee problem. If the policy of repatriation is to succeed, the view of the refugees with regard to the policy must be an important consideration. One of the complexities that repatriation policy does not seem to acknowledge is the changes and experiences that the refugees have undergone after many years in exile, in quite a few individual cases amounting to several decades. Whether refugees choose to return or not
Rethinking Revolution brings to life the spirited and often contentious debates among frontline activists over how to unify and transform their societies toward greater economic, social and political equality. Connell looks at the most dynamic new social movements in these countries — women and workers — and examines how they are challenging and enriching the strategic vision of leading political parties, even as they redefine the nature of power and the struggle to achieve it. He concludes: “Democracy without justice is ritual without substance, but justice without democracy is charity, not change.
This important new book analyzes, through field research, the most relevant microcredit programs in existence in Eritrea. This African country recently completed a thirty-year war of liberation and lives today through an extraordinary period of construction of its own national identity. Committed to promoting and supporting microcredit initiatives, it seeks an active participation by women in the process of reconstruction and remains a country firmly committed to its own history and culture.
When the government of Mengistu Hailemariam was overthrown and replaced by a new government headed by Prime Minister Meles Zenawi in 1991, Eritreans had hoped that there was finally a government in Ethiopia that had foresworn hegemonic ambitions towards Eritrea. The war (1998-2001) shattered this illusion.By carefully documenting the events of the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the author unravels the complexity of the dispute and places it in the context of both a regional and international political dynamic.
This two-volume collection of Connell’s writings, spanning a quarter-century, recounts the experience of Eritrea’s protracted independence war and its postliberation transition with vivid eyewitness imagery and insightful analysis. New introductions to each thematic section set the context—personal and political—for the reportage. The anthology provides a unique record of the birth of this culturally diverse new nation...
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