The professor is brilliant and impartial and advises Eritreans should figure out what is ailing them, be able to make peace among themselves, correct the mistakes of the past apologize to each other and forge a national reconciliation, take care of their own business without interfering in neighbors affairs and pave the way to open the political space for every stakeholder and build a vibrant nation which is governed by rule of law. This by itself will have a positive impact on our neighbors and put an end to the HGDEF chronic malaise.
‘we will break the Eritreans back’ TPLF’s old guard, haven’t they? in so many ways as the professor reflects and entertains the idea if we can work with the young and educated breed of woyane who don’t have the full grip of power yet. He flips through his memory and brings forth an incident in Somalia’s capital many years ago in which an Eritrean activist resigns to the corner and prays for the current monster to stay in power after a few exchange with our back breakers. Folks, that’s why God created this marvel of a mushroom in our cranium, to keep tab and avoid future pitfalls. Sometimes you have to pick your battles, however, we should focus in our business and our affair, make mends with our brother and sister who fought and bled on our side to make Eritrean sovereignty a reality and resurrect the blue cascade feeding the olive branch and reclaim the reason why the first bullet ricochet in mount Adal. Nobody cares about Eritrea than her true sons and daughters,
Nobody!!!!!
This is an impressive and generally balanced historical analysis. Thank you Prof. Awet, Assenna.com and Selam.
However, the discussion should not be taken as a more or less definitive explanation of the Eritrean crisis. There are a number of missing links in the story presented, partly because of shortage of time. One of these is the role of historical psychology and the significance of historical agents and their mistakes in historiography. The young prof. seems to have largely put aside or downplayed the role of Isaias Afwerki in manifesting and multiplying the Eritrean crisis that has brought a proud nation to ruins and unimaginable misery and lamentation – despite the nation’s realistic promise. I, therefore, guess that the prof’s presentation could be supplemented by another impressive analysis recently published in http://www.assenna.com entitled “Why and How We as a Collective Should Now Ask President Isaias to Resign” The article presents a detailed analysis of how the mind of Isaias Afwerki works and why he has taken Eritrea down the drain.
The prof. also correctly raises the inevitability and significance of Eritrea building closer relations with its neighbors – especially Ethiopia. This may require the establishment of a commonwealth of six nations in the Horn of Africa, probably with Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti at the core – following the European Union template. For this, I suggest that those interested read a recent article entitled: “Prospects for the Horn of Africa Commonwealth” published in http://www.zehabesha.com. Both of the said articles are available via http://www.google.com.
The third point that must be raised is the unexamined social psychology of the Eritrean and the need for a cultural transformation to modernize the quasi-medieval social norms which tend to adulate machismo and rough, tough and dictatorial personalities rather than knowledge, reason and wisdom. There is a historical reason for this, which is sad. Anyway, without the said transformation, democracy in Eritrea will probably remain a dream.
The professor is brilliant and impartial and advises Eritreans should figure out what is ailing them, be able to make peace among themselves, correct the mistakes of the past apologize to each other and forge a national reconciliation, take care of their own business without interfering in neighbors affairs and pave the way to open the political space for every stakeholder and build a vibrant nation which is governed by rule of law. This by itself will have a positive impact on our neighbors and put an end to the HGDEF chronic malaise.
‘we will break the Eritreans back’ TPLF’s old guard, haven’t they? in so many ways as the professor reflects and entertains the idea if we can work with the young and educated breed of woyane who don’t have the full grip of power yet. He flips through his memory and brings forth an incident in Somalia’s capital many years ago in which an Eritrean activist resigns to the corner and prays for the current monster to stay in power after a few exchange with our back breakers. Folks, that’s why God created this marvel of a mushroom in our cranium, to keep tab and avoid future pitfalls. Sometimes you have to pick your battles, however, we should focus in our business and our affair, make mends with our brother and sister who fought and bled on our side to make Eritrean sovereignty a reality and resurrect the blue cascade feeding the olive branch and reclaim the reason why the first bullet ricochet in mount Adal. Nobody cares about Eritrea than her true sons and daughters,
Nobody!!!!!
This is an impressive and generally balanced historical analysis. Thank you Prof. Awet, Assenna.com and Selam.
However, the discussion should not be taken as a more or less definitive explanation of the Eritrean crisis. There are a number of missing links in the story presented, partly because of shortage of time. One of these is the role of historical psychology and the significance of historical agents and their mistakes in historiography. The young prof. seems to have largely put aside or downplayed the role of Isaias Afwerki in manifesting and multiplying the Eritrean crisis that has brought a proud nation to ruins and unimaginable misery and lamentation – despite the nation’s realistic promise. I, therefore, guess that the prof’s presentation could be supplemented by another impressive analysis recently published in http://www.assenna.com entitled “Why and How We as a Collective Should Now Ask President Isaias to Resign” The article presents a detailed analysis of how the mind of Isaias Afwerki works and why he has taken Eritrea down the drain.
The prof. also correctly raises the inevitability and significance of Eritrea building closer relations with its neighbors – especially Ethiopia. This may require the establishment of a commonwealth of six nations in the Horn of Africa, probably with Eritrea, Ethiopia and Djibouti at the core – following the European Union template. For this, I suggest that those interested read a recent article entitled: “Prospects for the Horn of Africa Commonwealth” published in http://www.zehabesha.com. Both of the said articles are available via http://www.google.com.
The third point that must be raised is the unexamined social psychology of the Eritrean and the need for a cultural transformation to modernize the quasi-medieval social norms which tend to adulate machismo and rough, tough and dictatorial personalities rather than knowledge, reason and wisdom. There is a historical reason for this, which is sad. Anyway, without the said transformation, democracy in Eritrea will probably remain a dream.
Selam to you all! .