Bits & Pieces
The indigestible truth: A chronicle of Shakespeare, explosions, and unsavory injera
Right. So, there I was, rummaging for a note. Not just any note, mind you, but the one declaring the solemn start of my...
Will security operations halt Kenya-Ethiopia cross-border crimes?
In February, Kenyan police launched Operation Ondoa Jangili (‘remove the criminals’) as part of security measures to drive the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) out...
The same old effluent: Addis Ababa’s rivers and some ducks, revisited
Right. Six years, you say? This Addis Ababa drivel, resurfacing like a particularly persistent bit of flotsam. Readability, the excuse? As if one could...
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The digital knot and other tangled yarns
Last week, my intellectual curiosity, a persistent little nag, sent me burrowing through the digital dustbins for the works of a certain Sergew Hableselassie,...
Addis Ababa’s Intellectual Ark: What Floats, What Sinks
Right, so there I was, last week it must have been, a Tuesday perhaps, feeling a bit like a startled pigeon on a hot...
From Pyramid Schemes to Procrastination: A Right Old Goings-On
Right then. Memoirs, eh? Some blighter thinks his own piffle is worth the ink. Life, it seems, this grand outward shuffle from the nursery...
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The Question Remains: Adventures in Conversation
As I made my way to a rendezvous with a friend, I found myself embroiled in conversation—not with anyone else, but rather in a...
Navigating the Veritable Circus of Governance: A Tragi-Comic Odyssey Through AI in a Post-Truth World
In contemplating the chaotic narrative of modern governance, particularly that of the Trump administration, one is reminded of a madcap pageant where labels stick...
Between grapes and ghosts: A toast to the tumultuous meringue of will and folly
Conation is the mental process marked by the inclination to do something. There’s a certain determination and willfulness to it, which can come premeditated,...
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Inauspicious Epilogues: A Paper Chase through the Absurd
A quandary. Naturally. The very word, a linguistic foundling, orphaned by etymologists for four hundred years. They scratch, they mutter, they posit, they retract....