Samuel Estefanous

3 weeks ago | borkena.com | Samuel Estefanous

Editor’s Note : Views in the article do not necessarily reflect the views of borkena.com    By Samuel EstefanousThey say every adult American who was alive on 7 December 1941 remembers exactly where he was and what he was doing when the Imperial Japanese military attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor. It remains a milestone in contemporary American history.

1 month ago | borkena.com | Samuel Estefanous

By Samuel EstefanousIf you are AAU alumni and went to College in the good old 90s and around the turn of the Century , you are certain to be instructed and literally be groomed by this team of ‘convict-scholars’ freshly released from Dergue prison systems or though set free decades ago still read from virtual prison memoirs on and off Campus.

2 months ago | borkena.com | Samuel Estefanous

By Samuel Estefanous1- FlashbacksThis has to be asked again and again as we keep fumbling in the dark stinky alleys with or without light at the end of the tunnel. Quo Vadis, esteemed opposition groups…this question was popular back in 2018 at a different forum. We have to ask it again until such time the collective disorientation is gone.    Here we are, in 2017 E.C, twenty years after the phenomenon that was Kinjit. I remember those days. We were the roaring 90s after all.

2 months ago | borkena.com | Samuel Estefanous

“I bet young Teferi had soaked in more than his fair share of Oromuma on accounts of those ‘royal instructions’ delivered and conducted by the pipe smoking native folklorist.” Samuel EstifanosEditor’s Note : Views in the article do not necessarily reflect the views of borkena.comBy Samuel EstefanousMakes me wonder…how come we don’t have native scholars as illustrious as Fitewerari Tekle Hawariyat and Blata Merse Hazen?

Mar 18, 2025 | borkena.com | Samuel Estefanous

By Samuel EstefanousMisread and Misrepresented One of the millions of instances that validate the saying ignorance breeds suspicion, builds up hatred and erupts into open conflict is the successive interviews the late crooner Hachalu Hundesa had given in the months preceding his death. He knew he was misread and misrepresented. When he was asked if he listens to Teddy Afro, he took the dialogue to another level and shot back why he wouldn’t.