Over the years, we have seen how some misguided individuals and groups (humanitarian NGOs) have abused the magnanimity and hospitality of the Government and people of Eritrea and have engaged in activities designed to weaken Eritrea, undermine its budding institutions, undermine its history, create and manufacture “dissent”, incite student riots, incite “religious conflicts” and more.

Discussions about lifestyle might have existed for generations or even dating back to the origins of humanity itself. The phrase lifestyle was initially coined by an Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929, but its current broader usage dates back to the early 1960s. For the sake of clarifying the message that I want to communicate through this article, I define lifestyle as something that typically reflects an individual’s, group’s or nation’s attitudes, values and worldviews; and happiness as characteristic of enjoyment and gratification with what one can afford to have in life.

Development is a long and complex process that involves passing through several phases. Thus, countries have different stages of development though most of them constantly strive to achieve the highest level. Nonetheless, the journey to achieve development is by no means simple as there are several factors that hamper the pace of progress. Looking into Eritrea’s past and present experience is more than enough to have a general understanding about the complexity of the development process.

It shouldn’t be surprising if information is craved like water in a desert in today’s world which is crammed with immense information in the form of visual, audio and print media. Even in ancient times, the necessity of information could not be taken lightly. Sometimes, the question between the availability and non-availability of information could create a life and death difference.

Before the onset of the current meltdown in the world economy, Africa was believed to have scored encouraging GDP growth compared to the previous decade. In spite of this, however, we often see a deep-rooted poverty, probably more than anytime before. This scenario attests to the fact that economic growth per se cannot guarantee human welfare.

One of the most noticeable and negatively destructive achievements of socio-cultural development and organizational transformation of societies has been the culturally solidified and often accepted myth alleging that men and women are not equal. Ever since humans started to live as an organized group with specific tasks, the categorization of roles to group members was introduced. As such men were on the one hand supposed to go and bring a hunt and women assumed the role of child bearing and raring on the other.