Samuel Estefanous

1 week 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.

3 weeks 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?

1 month ago | 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.

1 month ago | borkena.com | Samuel Estefanous

Editor’s Note : Views in the article do not necessarily reflect the views of borkena.comBy Samuel Estefanous The Anniversary of the Great Patriotic War is around the corner. The Chinese leader has already declared that he will be attending the event. I wouldn’t be surprised if Ethiopia is also invited. Who would be invited and who would be attending is going to be ‘great television’ to borrow words from Donald J. Trump.

1 month ago | borkena.com | Samuel Estefanous

By Samuel EstefanousBefore the world is done processing JD Vance’s epoch defining speech at the Munich Security Conference, for the first time in the entire history of the UN General Assembly and SC sessions, the United States and the Russian Federation stood in solid unison against the EU. It kinda reminded me the sense of loneliness Churchill had felt at Yalta peace conference where Roosevelt and Stalin were calling all the shots at the expense of Europe.