“In our factory, today is always better than yesterday,” stated Mr. Reesom Negash, the General Manager, explaining the company’s efforts to raise its production both in quality and quantity. Privatized in 1998, Barako Textile Factory is the second largest textile factory of its kind in Eritrea, and has registered a remarkable development with 30% production increase in the past two years.

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.

Seldom has time been fair and accountable to history. Usually great events and people are great long after they are no more. Time has rarely captured history while unfolding leaving a big opportunity to historians to hijack history in to books, depriving people interested in the present the virtue of experience. And when time catches history on the making, rushing after shallow events it denies history the necessary analysis and fair interpretation it deserves. The world is full of such remarkable historical events that were missed by and buried in the memories of individuals who either made or witnessed them and history books.

January 31, 2010: Eritreans from all over the DC Metropolitan area gathered to show their support in defense of the people and government of Eritrea to strongly denounce the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1907 that was illegally imposed on the homeland in December 23rd, 2009. Despite the nasty weather conditions over 1500 Eritreans showed up at the Double Tree hotel in Crystal City, Virginia. The ESMART (ERITREAN SANCTIONS MUST be ANNULED & REPEALED TODAY) movement that started as soon as the illegal sanctions were imposed was in full effect in the DC metro area as the campaign continues throughout the globe.