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82 essaysOne Civilization Taught to See Itself as Two
Eritrea and Tigray were made politically separate, but they were never made civilizationally foreign to each other. Eritrea can stand as Eritrea, and Tigray can stand as Tigray. Two flags can remain. Two political realities can remain. But beneath them, one people can recover the organic bond that history never fully destroyed.
Read essay →The Project Behind the Performance: Oromo-Centered State Power and What Tigray Risks Missing
Tigrayan media is not wrong to engage anti-Abiy Oromo voices. But engagement is not analysis. The suffering of Oromo opponents of Abiy Ahmed does not dissolve the Oromo-centered structure of the state project, it only makes the project harder to see.
Read essay →Tigray’s Youth Are Not Fuel – But Tigray Must Not Be Demobilized
Tigray’s challenge is not only to prepare for danger, but to do so without breaking the moral bond between the youth, the people, and the national cause.
Read essay →Discipline Before Power, Execution Before Drift
Many Tigrayans have been asking why TPLF was moving so slowly. That question has not disappeared. It has changed form.
Read essay →When ጽምዶ Becomes Amnesia
When actors who helped make Tigray's destruction possible return as architects of Ethiopia's next political order, Tigray's task is not to reject every conversation. ጽምዶ began as Tigray's own survival project, a public-to-public insulation against mistrust, manipulation, and collective self-erasure among communities that share history, geography, kinship, and pain.
Read essay →Prosperity with a Tigrayan Accent
The danger of Tigray’s splinter politics is not only that some actors want power. It is that they seek political relevance without carrying the full burden of Tigray’s national question. That is not a national program. It is political homelessness.
Read essay →What Tigray Wants: On Negotiating as a Governing Institution
The next negotiation will not be decided only by what Tigray demands, but by whether it enters the room as a political party seeking accommodation or as a governing institution asserting constitutional rights.
Read essay →The Horn Is Being Rearranged. Tigray Must Not Remain Outside the Room.
The danger is not simply that the Horn is being rearranged without Tigray in the room. The deeper danger is that Tigray may fail to read that rearrangement in time to convert its institutional reconstitution into political leverage.
Read essay →The Space Between War and Submission
The danger facing Tigray is not only another war. This memo examines how unresolved territorial, diplomatic, and institutional questions can harden into a lasting political reality, and argues for coordinated action before the room to reverse it closes.
Read essay →Beyond the Scapegoat: The System That Failed Tigray
I would say this "What happened to Tigray was not the failure of a single party or a single leader. It was the failure of a system we all sustained, and until we name that honestly, we will remain trapped in explanations that cannot produce a future."
Read essay →Between Resistance and Survival: On the dilemma dividing Tigrayan thinking, and what it is hiding
Tigray cannot afford to let its internal debate do what its enemies could not.
Read essay →Beyond the Framework: Thinking Clearly About Agency in Tigray’s Current Moment
Frameworks may define how others interpret our actions. They must not define how we understand our own survival.
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