In trying to write about personal integrity, I risk revealing my fragility. Let it be! After listening to Jordan Peterson, a professor of psychology at the University of Toronto, on…
Sociological research findings, since the industrial revolution, have been showing that there are prevailing ‘inequalities’ among the urban population. Because of ostensibly new complications in urban social life, people of…
It is always striking to observe that seemingly very little things often bring about irreversible and immensely large effects. Mathematicians have a fancy and poetic term for outcomes, which are…
An urgent and concrete measure is badly needed and should be deployed before it is too late and before the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) has become history. Blatant…
Think tanks, the “bridge between knowledge and power” as defined by the United Nations (UN), are instrumental in public policy formulations and analysis. Think tanks have a unique role in…
The difference between money and wealth, though fundamental, is not so obvious that the former is viewed as equivalent to or even more preferred to the latter. When people work…
Addis Ababa is believed to be home to 4.6 million residents. The growth of capital cities of the National Regional States such as Bahir Dar, Hawassa, Adama and Mekelle is…
Ethiopia is one of the fastest growing economies in Africa with an average growth rate of 7pc to 11pc. It is also the second most populous country in Africa next…
A friend of mine who was recently hired as a general manager of a family-owned company told me last week that he proposed a new career structural adjustment, a new…
When companies publicise various social works and engagements, one wonders that they have had corporate social responsibilities. Such kinds of commitments are ‘soft’ so that they effectively lack enforcement. These…
Dairy production is not something new to Ethiopia. It is a tradition. Milk has been produced and consumed throughout the country for centuries. Depending on the situations in geography, climate,…
The national examinations for grade 10 and 12 which have been conducted for the last two weeks and the subsequent shut down of the Internet compelled me to think about…
It was almost a year ago, on a Saturday afternoon in Addis Abeba. I was sitting alone in a café sipping my favourite hot drink. Seated next to me were…
I was just here for a working visit in Ethiopia when I heard that the government has shutdown the Internet. Whooooaaah!!! Can they do that? I asked my friends who…
Having ruled the country for more than a quarter of a century now, the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) has faced unprecedented and staggering internal and external challenges that…
I consider myself one of the most loyal readers of your newspaper. I read your paper not only because reading papers was part of my job description until very recently,…
In the books of the Revolutionary Democrats, under-development, primari...
Today, Ethiopia is the fifth largest coffee producer next to Brazil, Vi...
There is a growing anxiety at the top tier of the A...
Drought has remained a major challenge not only to Ethiopia but also ma...
In trying to write about personal integrity, I risk revealing my fragil...
The word bootleg used to have a more direct meaning. It used to refer t...
The previous week was attention captivating. Emperor Haile Selassie and...
