The day before our trip to Kerkebet, NUEYS’s driver, Mr. Asmerom, announced that we needed to get ready for 4:00 am the next day. On Friday March 5th, Asmerom left…
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Asmara’s Modernist City
Asmara Heritage Project Eritrea is endowed with rich and diverse cultural and natural heritage properties which are significant at national and international levels. Since independence, the Eritrean Government has committed…
Asmara – Modernist City
Asmara, the capital city of Eritrea, is one of the most important and exciting architectural ‘discoveries’ of recent years. Built almost entirely in the 1930s by the Italians, Asmara has…
The Good and the Bad
Before I came to Eritrea, people filled my head with ideas of what it would be like to live here; some were good but most people had negative things to…
Asmara: a Romantic City
In the quite early morning of the day the city is filled with the sound of churches’ bells and the azanat of mosques. Women are seen on their white traditional…
“Going to Sawa is less of a choice and more of an obligation,” Heaven Tesfamariam-Bereketeab
I once read: “Those who have never had to fight for freedom will not fight to keep it.” As a daughter of a member of the First Round of the…