Tuesday, June 19, 2007

CONGRADULATIONS RED SEA BOY'S!!!!!





Our national team's victory against Kenya last Saturday is a very important step towards Ghana 2008. If they win the next game against Swaziland, Eritrea will participate for the first time in the CAF championship. Congratulation Redsea boys!! and Good luck for the next game!!

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Quote from 1998 time magazine

By logic, the Nation of Eritrea (pop. 3 million) should not exist. The secessionist province's independence fighters ought never to have defeated Ethiopia in their 30-year-long struggle. They were outmanned, outgunned, abandoned or betrayed by every ally; their cause was hopeless. They won by force of character, a unity and determination so steely not all the modern armaments, super power support or economic superiority of Ethiopia could withstand it. The spirit that saw the Eritreans through 10 years in the trenches of their mountain redoubt at Nakfa has built them a Nation from scratch; since independence was finally consummated in 1993." TIME Magazine - March 30, 1998

Someone forwarded this message for me and I decide to put it on this blog, because it in a very rare occusion to find an account of Eritrea true struggle in these magazines.

Wednesday, June 6, 2007

An Eritrean Kid in USA

A first grade teacher explains to her class that she is an American.
She asks her students to raise their hands if they were American too.
Not really knowing why but wanting to be like their teacher, their hands
explode into the air like flashy fireworks.
There is, however, one exception. A girl named Selam has not gone along with the crowd.
The teacher asks her why she has decided to be different.
"Because I am not an American." replied Selam.
"Then", asks the teacher, "What are you?"
"I'm a proud Eritrean," boasts the little girl.

The teacher is a little perturbed now, her face slightly red.
She asks Selam why she is a Eritrean.
"Well, my mom and dad are Eritreans, so I'm a Eritrean too."
The teacher is now angry . "That's no reason", she says loudly
"if your mom was an idiot, and your dad was an idiot, what would you be then?"

A pause and a smile.
"Then" says Selam,
"I'd be an American."
Semhar Tekeste(University of Ottawa)