The Bad, the Ugly of Society in Crisis

Business As Usual in the Unusual Time of COVID-19

Business As Usual in the Unusual Time of COVID-19

May 9 , 2020 . By Hanna Haile

Next week, it will have been two months since my partner and I have self-isolated and closed our business waiting for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) storm to pass. My family...

Home is Not Always Safe, Especially for Women

Home is Not Always Safe, Especially for Women

April 25 , 2020 . By Hanna Haile

As the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread across the world, governments have been imposing or at least advising preventive measures to fight the spread of the vi...

Divided We Fall, Together It's Possible to Make It

Divided We Fall, Together It's Possible to Make It

April 17 , 2020 . By Hanna Haile

Language, studied properly, helps expose much of what is wrong with our world. Take the term “Third World” for instance. It was originally coined by Alfred Sauvy, a Fre...

Prevalence of Creativity, Near Demise of Creative Spaces

Prevalence of Creativity, Near Demise of Creative Spaces

April 4 , 2020 . By Hanna Haile

One of the unintended consequences of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been the closure of virtually every establishment that depends on people gathering in large numbers around a limited...

One of the unintended consequences of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19...

Brace for Cultural, Socioeconomic Adjustment

Brace for Cultural, Socioeconomic Adjustment

March 28 , 2020 . By Hanna Haile

The world is almost at a standstill as it grapples with an impending tragedy. What started out as the spread of an unknown respiratory virus in a Chinese city most of us had never heard of before has...

The world is almost at a standstill as it grapples with an impending t...

Survival of the Considerate

Survival of the Considerate

March 21 , 2020 . By Hanna Haile

It may have taken some time, but the global pandemic of the Coronavirus disease has reached Ethiopia. Unsettling feelings of panic are just beginning to hit home. As stated in the weeks before the...

It may have taken some time, but the global pandemic of the Coronaviru...

As Zoos Proliferate, Wildlife Heritage Suffers

As Zoos Proliferate, Wildlife Heritage Suffers

March 14 , 2020 . By Hanna Haile

The visit I made to the Addis Abeba Zoo, aka Anbessa Gebi, in Amist Kilo as a child is one of the most memorable events of my life. It was meant as a treat from my uncle to my sister and me. But it di...

The visit I made to the Addis Abeba Zoo, aka Anbessa Gebi, in Amist Ki...

We Could Learn from Caleb’s Sense of Duty

We Could Learn from Caleb’s Sense of Duty

March 7 , 2020 . By Hanna Haile

I no longer want to celebrate holidays such as Adwa Victory, which honours values we no longer stand for, as we continue to fail young people. Until we can embody the sense of justice, independence,...

I no longer want to celebrate holidays such as Adwa Victory, which ho...