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Awate Book Review: Michela Wong's I Didn't Do It For You Print E-mail
By Burhan Ali - May 13, 2005   
The style of the book is an old and common style used by writers of the European Romantic movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth century: valid for speaking pompously, but vaguely, about things which one cannot objectify, define or quantify. It is a style of saying things almost poetically in the hope that the charm of the language may stand for truth or, in any case, may transfer feelings the author experiences but can’t intelligibly communicate.
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The Stuff We Were Nurtured On Print E-mail
By Zekre Lebona - May 08, 2005   
The bounty from the salt trade was not entirely forgotten. It surfaced again, after the fall of the Mobutu regime in the then Zaire. Rumors were rife in Asmera about the existence of a huge market for our salt surplus to unload. There are, it was said, mostly through the 09, millions of salt-starved Congolese. Not only that the story goes, our plastic shoes factories will also have to shod the millions of barefoot people from the same country.
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Adem Melekin: A Brick In the Foundation Of Eritrea (1) Print E-mail
By Saleh Gadi - Apr 11, 2005   
How is it that a country whose citizens overproduced bravery is in such malaise with her children fleeing from her and her exiled ones quietly enduring exile? The solution is with the PFDJ, says Melekin and, "if I could, I would tell them: you struggled and succeeded and now you have the solution in your hands- you are not going to live for a hundred-years, sooner or later you will die. You should leave a legacy that would add to your previous legacy- why do you want your children to be remembered as the ‘children of the thief’ or ‘children of the killer or jailer?"
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The Rashaida: maybe our “Tuaregs”, not our “Gypsies” Print E-mail
By Zekre Lebona - Mar 16, 2005   
In several instances, I witnessed Rashaida caravans being paid by the EPLF commanders. It is safe to assume that the approach of both Fronts towards the Rashaida was identical. They were not "a political threat" then as now.
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Oh ‘Sugar’, Where Art Thou?(Or how I am struggling to make ends meet) Print E-mail
By Events Monitor, Asmara - Mar 06, 2005   
Consumer goods are hard to come by and long queues have become a daily spectacle everywhere. You just have to pass by the Elabered Estate distribution center near Asmara Bowling Club, to get a glimpse of the serpentine lines formed by Asmara’s residents trying their luck at landing a liter of milk. It is not unusual for the lines to be stretched as far as the new fuel station past mai timket. The queues start forming around 4 to 5 in the morning before the shops open at about 7:30.
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