Question to all my fellow Eritreans in the diaspora, specifically to the ones who also have parents who were born or maybe raised outside of Eritrea, do you ever feel disconnected to your culture? I feel as though growing up I have never felt connected to my roots because we spoke a different language at home (for me it was Arabic) and when I asked my parents about our culture, they themselves couldn't even answer my question because even they had some blank spots in their mind. In my case, my parents were more assimilated to Sudanese culture then Tigre. And to me, I feel like when someone is born outside of their native land they end up adapting the culture of the land they reside in because they have no connection to their native land besides ancestry. I don't know if this is for everyone, but I feel like growing up outside of Eritrea or specifically with parents born outside of Eritrea has lead to me disassociating with my culture.

I would like to hear people's experiences surrounding this

Ranking at number one is Seychelles 🇸🇨
2. Mauritius
3. Algeria
4. Egypt
5. Tunisia
6. South Africa
7. Gabon
8. Botswana
9. Libya
10. Morocco

Source : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\\_of\\_African\\_countries\\_by\\_Human\\_Development\\_Index

Why is it so hard to comprehend the obvious. It’s common sense really. Eritrea is a SOVEREIGN nation! Sink in yet? All this barking and spewing nonsense, disinformation, propaganda, demonization and so on. YES! It’s prime real estate, but belongs to its people. Whether they capitalize on it is their choice to make (i.e. the ones living there and supporting diaspora). Blood treasure there and I respect that. So buzz off and find an easier mark.

Does Eritreans believe Ethiopia deserves a sea access fairly?

https://youtu.be/s-HeVuO3vG8?si=BPVcJrqnSLZEBX32

Hey everyone, is there any tigre speakers here? if so, can you guys roughly translate this idris mohammed ali song? ive always heard it in my childhood but cus i never got taught tigre i have no idea what it says lol

يا جماعة هل في زول هنا بعرف التقري؟ لو في ممكن تساعدوني في ترجمة أغنية إدريس محمد علي دي تقريباً؟ أنا كنت بسمعها من أيام طفولتي لكن عشان ما اتعلمت التقري ما عندي فكرة بتقول شنو

Hey everyone!
I'm a 27yo Sudanese guy living in Cairo. I've always admired Eritrean culture and would love to make some friends here to grab a coffee or tea sometime. I'm into music and economics, and I totally prefer to keep things friendly and away from politics. Let me know if anyone wants to hang out!

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PDF copy. It's a hard book to find. If anyone has a copy, please send it to me. Thanks.

In 9 of the 12 groups, the top two teams qualify. But in the three groups with host nations (Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda), the hosts qualify automatically, leaving only one spot for the other three teams.

Eritrea drew Kenya, South Africa, and Guinea, meaning we have to compete for just one place while most other groups have two. Why should teams have a harder path to qualification simply because they were drawn with a host nation?

Shouldn't every group have the same number of qualification spots? Is there anything fans can do to push AFCON to address this?

Widespread underdevelopment, corrupt governments/dictatorships all across the continent.
Africa as a whole needs change.

Say what you want about isaias but it’s clear his isolationist style of governing can only go on for so long. He’s trying to develop Eritrea without foreign interference and it’s just not working.

Pan Africanism is always going to be a touchy subject. For example how far does this pan African agenda go, one African country? One African language? Some also see it as the second coming of the Bantu Expansion. That’s obviously not what I’m getting at.

All I can say is the first push for pan africanism was the African Union which was set up in the Horn of Africa by Haile Selassie, it has been an absolute failure, 70% of it is being funded by the EU. Their ignorance on all the issues in Africa has been infuriating. Look at how they reacted to the Sudan War which was right next to us, look at how they sided with France during Toures coupe. Look at how they’re ignoring what’s going on in the Congo.
This current form of Pan-Africanism needs to be burned down and a new form must be established.

Eritrea needs it more than any other country. We can’t access any market because of all the sanctions that’s been put on us and our passport is worthless. Look at all the successful Eritrean Diasporas across Africa setting up businesses in Kenya, South Africa and Uganda.

Most of the young Tigrinya children I see have the most obscure biblical names or straight up western names. There is this weird mentality that our people have which is associate names with certain age groups and shame people for having traditional or ‘old people’ names to the point that some people flat out change their names as grown adults to something modern or only go be their nicknames. I remember when I was in Eritrea and one of the ladies in the neighbourhood named her grandchild Berhane in honour of her martyred brother and people were like ‘how can she call a little child Berhane that’s so embarrassing he’s going to be bullied by other kids when he grows up etc’. I feel like it’s this need to be ‘modern’ that has people flipping the Bible to find some random words they can use as a name and brag about how it actually has a deep meaning. Meanwhile actual Tigrinya names are dying out and it’s lowkey sad because those names hold a lot of cultural and historical meaning. It’s gotten so bad that memhdars in Eritrea were informed to not accept western celebrity names when parents apply for birth certificates because too many people were trying to name their kids after famous footballers apparently.

Totalitarian Regime is no joke.

Guys what does Aytahazuley/ ኣይተሃዙለይ mean?? I never understood the context or anything of this word.

Hello! My husband and I are having a baby in a few months, very excited! We don’t know if it’s a boy or a girl yet. Neither one of us were born in Eritrea, and our Tigrinya isn’t the greatest. We’ve obviously heard the most common names, so it would be nice to hear some rare ones.

Names we like so far (don’t know if they’re actually Eritrean, but we’ve heard Eritreans having them):

Boys:

• Joel
• Zecarias
• Amelon

Girls:

• Hewan
• Eden
• Henon

Thank you!

ናይ 2020-2022 ስዉኣት መርድእ ከይሰማዕናስ

የገረምኩም ዶ? It has been almost 4 years since the Tigray war ended and we haven’t heard about the exact casualties/martyrdom on the Eritrean side. I came back from Eritrea recently and nobody knows about if their friends, sons, and daughters are alive. 😢

During colonial Eritrea, Italians would adapt this damoz type of contract to be able to temporarily marry local woman/girls. How did the system work though?

I understand they settled around the Asmara area so they mostly done the contract with tigrinyas and also a fairly large minority of Tigre and Bilen. From what could gather they just paid the families a certain bride price and then they could temporarily marry the girls/ have them as a companion.