Bits & Pieces
The Rub: A Lifelong Probation
It was right after I was glued to the press conference given by the Minister of Education last Monday. It must have been the...
The Moil: A Vibe Check
Thursday and a piece for tomorrow, how bittersweet. The vibe is just… a low-key emptiness. It’s like the universe is on mute, and I’m...
The Cost of Daily Disruptions
In Cameron Crowe’s Jerry Maguire, Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Rod Tidwell delivers the now-iconic demand to Tom Cruise’s sports agent: “Show me the money.” It’s...
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The Book I Lost, and the Freedom I Found
Two decades with Sartre’s Nausea As my car approached Bole International Airport one recent morning, a jetliner roared low across the open sky. Its wingspan...
Ab Ovo to Evanesce: How We Get It Topsy-Turvied on the Vicious Cycle
It was just a normal Thursday, but in the back of my mind, something was bugging me. My writing for tomorrow was giving me...
And you wouldn’t believe me if I told you
That’s how the cow ate the cabbage. A grim business, isn’t it? I’m told it’s about telling it like it is, getting down to...
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I Missed the Bus
In 1993, when I was in 11th grade at Black Lion High School, a pair of teenagers from Atlanta who called themselves Kriss Kross...
A Solulu, a Delulu, and the Humdrum Misalignment of Everything
A delulu, you ask? A delusion? Yes, I have encountered such things. A Pandora's Box of pestilential evils, a saprogenic corner of a city,...
The Rain: A Warm Soup, a Hot Cup of Tea, and, of Course, a Gabbi Never Hurts
Of flooded streets and road management On a recent anniversary, I found myself at the Sheraton Addis, seated on the veranda of its Jade...
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A literary voyage across time and continents
My very first encounter with classic Russian literature came in 1995, when I bought a book from the then Kuraz Publishing House for 14...