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Oct 2 , 2021

Training: the Answer to Every Siege Against One's Profession

The Greek mathematician Euclid's Elements, written in the third century BC, was a collection of theorems and problems that formed the basis for geometry. Yet, much of it owes a great debt to the work...

Sep 26 , 2021

'Temar Lije' the Million Dollar Punctuations

The most costly grammatical error in history was made when a US space probe, Mariner 1, bound for a Venus flyby, headed off course and had to be destroyed, setting the National Aeronautics & Space...

Sep 18 , 2021

Vigilance against Stagnation: the Price of Professionalism

Rahel Belatchew, an Ethiopian born Swedish architect, has been rocking the architecture world. Recently, she became a finalist in the 1st category of Founder of the Year, an award that recognises entr...

Sep 10 , 2021

Laser Pointed New Year’s Resolution

As I was contemplating about making a New Year's resolution, the word “new” brought some déjà vu from the past, my college days. Back then, suggested readings for the courses we took was rare. T...

Sep 4 , 2021

Paint the Heart Out: Inspiration for Uninspiring Times

In 1995, Iggy Pop responded to a 21-year-old fan – Laurence, a child of an acrimonious divorce. One morning, his response arrived at her home in Paris when her family was being evicted. Amidst tears...

Aug 28 , 2021

Don't Knock Elementary Schools, There's Nothing Elementary About Them

A couple of months ago, I met an old colleague, a senior veteran army officer old enough to be my father. When we worked together, he used to be illustrious for his discipline and admired for his att...

Aug 21 , 2021

Meet Athletes Halfway on the Tough Road, However Breathtaking It Could Get

Right after I finished college, I got a job at a state enterprise. Given a chair with a table in an office with two other professionals, I asked where I could find the keys to the table drawers. But t...

Aug 14 , 2021

Library of Today, Knowledge Platform of the Future

A corridor in the building of the Education Ministry, which is entrusted with a mammoth value and mission, once witnessed a strenuous debate between two friends. They were university students working...

Aug 7 , 2021

Addis' Historic Site Conservationists, Assemble!

I was fortunate enough to participate in a brainstorming session last week organised by architects and academics. It was hoped to write the story of architecture in Ethiopia by identifying and captur...

Jul 31 , 2021

Bye, Bye Movie Stars, Make Way for the 'Influencers'

Recently, I had a chat with a once aspiring broadcaster whose dream of being famous through his local FM radio programme fell by the wayside some time ago. I asked him how he became sure of his failur...

Jul 24 , 2021

Murphy's Law to Life in Present Day Ethiopia

Some famous sayings often express the need for pessimism. Take Murphy's Law, which states that “if anything can go wrong, it will.” A lesser-known one is Hofstadter's Law: “everything will ta...

Jul 18 , 2021

Much Meaning in Body Language, Even More in Balageru’s Dancers

Some people are creative animals. The 19th-century Norwegian philologist Ivar Aasen collected all of his country's difficult regional speech, and created a national language. Then he shaped folke-maal...

Jul 10 , 2021

Veterans of Legacy Media Pose Lessons for Foot Soldiers of Twitter

Among Portugal's few literary giants, Alberto Caeiro, Álvaro de Campos, Ricardo Reisall and Fernando Pessoa are mentioned. Yet, all the preceding three were pseudonyms of the last one. As if these ar...

Jul 3 , 2021

The Bahiru Kegnes of Today Boast Electronic Masinko

Dick Fosbury, an American high jumper, won a gold medal and broke the world record for the high jump in Mexico City during the 1968 Olympics. Medals are out there to be won, as are records to be broke...

Jun 26 , 2021

The Structure's Imposing, but What's Its Story?

Francisco Álvares, half a millennia ago, told of the tales of Lalibela's rock-hewn churches with a memorable introduction. “It wearied me to write more of these works, because it seemed to me th...

Jun 19 , 2021

Ghion Hotel, No Less the Sheraton, Inaccessible at the Height of Their Power

It was a tale told by the likes of Jonathan Swift – Henry VIII, a 16th century British monarch, being so pleased with the luscious slice of pink meat served to him, unsheathed his sword, laid it on...


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