By Itai Muchena:  The Legacy of the Berlin Conference of 1884,,, Today, the same Germany — the womb that gave birth to colonialism — is unashamedly hosting and developing AFRICOM, the United States of America superior military command formed to superintend on America’s milking of African resources, at the expense of not only Africa but other fair dealing countries of the world. There is no doubt that Germany is seeking re-colonisation of Africa, this time, creating space for its big brother, the United States of America.  Read More…

By Kassahun: Someone close to my taste said, "what is very tragic is to sleep through a Revolution", doing a Rip Van Winkle on the momentous event shaking the given country. Let me state from the outset that I have not (yet) read the book by Maaza Mengiste (Beneath the Lion’s Gaze) and I do not know the person or the politics of the reviewer of her book, Ato Abebe Gelaw. However, his labelling of the February 1974 Revolution (Yekatit 66) as tragic and brutal spurred me to write the following lines. More motivation has also come from others who have been revising History and projecting that popular revolution in negative terms and also by the denial of the Red Terror made by the lamentable Dr, Hailu Araya (a Derg loyalist now wearing another mask) and criminals trying to hide their past despicable deeds. Read More…

Comments from Yilma Begashaw: Construction of Memorial foundation for the Victims of the Red Terror: VOA Interview of 10 April 2010 involving Ato Yitna Tigneh and Dr. Hailu Araya

During the whole interview, Addisu Abebe showed his usual partisanship with the Brutal Dictatorship of the Military Regime. He did not have any feeling for the thousands of the innocent citizens, mostly young boys and girls, who were massacred during the most inhuman and Fascistic measures taken by the Military Dictatorship. Bodies were left on the streets for days to create panic and terror. Mothers had to pay for the bullets that were ‘wasted’ massacring those young people before they were able to claim bodies for burial. Sticks were pushed into women’s vagina. Boys were castrated. Hot oil and water were poured on bodies. Nails were peeled off. Eyes were destroyed with needles. How about the beatings? Hanging of bodies up side down? Read More…

Hama Tuma:  Without going deep into the not so negligible difference between an illusion (more of a perceptual problem) and a delusion (concerning belief despite facts to the contrary) it is safe to state that most of Africa suffers from the delusion of being independent fifty years after some 18 African countries allegedly gained their "independence" from Colonialism which was a tricky monster if there ever was one.  Read More…