In this richly researched and lucidly written collection of essays, ‘The Freedom of the Writer’ and Other Selected Literary and Cultural Essays, Ghirmai Negash provides solid analysis and information on some of the salient aspects of Eritrean literature and culture.
This is a seminal book on the subject and profession of human resource management in governments. It is designed to enlighten readers and students of public administration on the management of civil service establishments by governments. It appraises the profession of public personnel administration in the context of changing political scenarios and other environmental forces. The author purports that his primer will induce not only the intellectual enjoyment of the subject, but that it will encourage readers to seize some of the exciting challenges of the profession and the emerging issues of personnel administration.
This timely and unique book is an analytical study of post-liberation Eritrea. The work offers an extraordinary account of the events and developments that have taken place in the country’s politics, economy and foreign relations and of the things that have gone wrong since independence. By focusing on the economy, constitutional development or lack thereof, and foreign relations, the book illuminates objectively the internal and external difficulties and constraints the country faced in building a democratic society, viable economy, and sustainable foreign policy after liberation...
In April 1976, Dan Connell slipped into Eritrea’s besieged capital, Asmara, where he witnessed the assassination of a top-ranking Ethiopian official and its bloody aftermath—the summary execution of dozens of innocent civilians. His front page account in "The Washington Post" broke Ethiopia’s long-standing information blockade...
The Challenges of a society in Transition: Legal development in Eritrea is an analytical account of the role and development of law in societies undergoing transition from one political order to another. It focuses on the legal transitions that Eritrea experienced, tracing the path of legal development from the advent of European colonialism through the struggle for independence and sovereign nationhood.
In 2001, months after a devastating war with Ethiopia, a wide-ranging debate erupted within Eritrea over the conduct of leadership and the content of government policy, particularly around the 1998-2000 Border War with Ethiopia, which many thought could have been averted. Much of the criticism was directed at the president, Isaias Afwerki, who refused to implement a newly ratified Constitution or to permit the formation of political parties or to conduct national elections. This national conversation came to an abrupt halt in September when the government arrested its most prominent critics, shut down the private press, and smothered all public political discussion.
Eritrea as home of nine ethno-linguistic and multi-faith groups has the potential ingredients of lethal identity-based conflicts. However, in spite of its potentially conflict-prone social structure, there have never been in the country’s history generalized ethnic or faith-based violent conflicts; save the limited skirmishes that took place in Asmara in February 1950 between the Youth of the Muslim League and the youth of the Unionist Party. The civil wars between the ELF and EPLF during the first half and late 1970s and early 1980s had nothing or little to do with ethnicity or religion.
This book examines the century-long process of the making of the Eritrean nation. Developments that culminated in the emergence of the State of Eritrea in 1991 are investigated and elaborated as they are traced from their beginnings in 1890, when Italy declared the creation of its new Colony of Eritrea. The study argues that the act of territorial delineation initiated the creation of Eritrea, followed by various phases of transformation that shaped its formation. This century-long process is divided into three distinct periods, Italian rule, the British administration and Ethiopian rule...