Bits & Pieces
The price of venturing out…
One of my biggest challenges as someone who works on her own schedule is that I struggle with sticking to a certain schedule.
Products or victims of globalization?
I have been thinking about globalization and what it means today. I was spending a lot of time with my little cousins all of whom come from different places.
Unionist or separatist, it all comes at a price
But with the social media block this past week, I went back to watching the news on TV and it was very unpleasant.
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Accountability: fact or fiction?
If it were not real, Brexit could easily qualify as one of the biggest practical jokes played on a nation in recent history.
The dark side
One of the most recurring conversations I have with myself relates to governance.
The challenge of a generation
I have been thinking long and hard about how last month marked the 25th year since the fall of the Derg and the rise of the Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF).
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The salary life
The more I think about, the more I realize how much more expensive life is becoming in Addis Ababa.
Disruption!
This word seems to be the “mot du jour” in this age of entrepreneurship that we live in. But what does it mean? What does it imply? These are questions that are overlooked but are vital for the survival of the disruption.
A time where politics matters, and lives don’t…
Yesterday I read an article about how the Italian coast guard found a floating body of a baby in the Mediterranean Sea.
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Education as diplomacy
I had a conversation about higher education and careers with law students recently and was reminded of the difficulties one faces in getting higher degrees in Ethiopia.