· October, 2010

Stories about Ethiopia from October, 2010

Ethiopia: On Ethiopian Intellectuals

  28 October 2010

A critique of Ethiopian intellectuals: “Ethiopian intellectuals are a sick bunch. They are wild and radical. Radical in the sense of acting together as a single unit; wild in the sense of having no focus or rather focused only on short term gains.”

Africa: Ancient African Writing Systems

  20 October 2010

Did Africans use any writing systems before foreigners came to the continent?: “The truth of the matter is that ancient Africans were writing and there are several African writing systems even though most of them may be forgotten now…And we cannot forget the Ethiopian script, Ge’ez used in community that...