Alemayehu G. Mariam

It is gratifying to know that Ethiopian-Americans are carrying their fair share of the load in helping the economy of their homeland. It was an eye-opening revelation to learn that Ethiopian-Americans contributed a cool US$1.2 billion to the Ethiopian economy this past year.

Open letter to President Lee C. Bollinger, Columbia University

The great Nelson Mandela said, ‘In my country we go to prison first and then become president.’ He assured the masters of the apartheid system, ‘You may succeed in delaying, but never in preventing the transition of South Africa to a democracy.’ On the occasion of the Ethiopian New Year (2003) ce

THE MINISTRY OF INDOCTRINATION

THE AFRICA KLEPTOCRACY PROJECT

THE HUMAN RIGHTS LEDGER OF THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

IF THE SILENCED MAJORITY COULD TALK…

HAS THE MIGHTY EAGLE TURNED CLUCKING CHICKEN?

In March 2007, I wrote an allegorical commentary during our grassroots advocacy efforts to pass H.R. 5680 (later H.R.

WOMEN IN THE ‘PRESENT COUNTRY OF ETHIOPIA’