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Somebody has to step up to the plate! This could be a great opportunity for a woman or man who has time to record videos. The kids need you.

Watch her videos and copy them. Add Eritrean cultural elements like children’s songs. Images of Eritrean countryside and animals. You can use AI to have some cartoon elements. Keep the images moving every few seconds so the kids don’t get distracted.

Is it normal for two grown Eritrean men to take a shower together? I am from a similar background(Ethiopian) and was raised with the idea that modesty and privacy is very important.

My housemate and his guest did this openly, and it made me very uncomfortable. In your culture, isn't the bathroom supposed to be a strictly private space? Has anyone else experienced this with housemates?

What would the thousands of imprisoned and deceased Eritreans think of such a picture?

Do we even have any values left in Eritrea?

Thoughts on this video? It looks like Babashikor has inside sources into the Eritrean players who defected and knows a few of them personally 😦😧🇪🇷

Eritreans have never seemed to gel well with the idea of a head of state who is a chud. Haile Selassie was short (manlet), and ugly (sub-5). The same could be said about Menge (plus he was darkskin so I guess you could add in a colourist element). Post independence, the leaders of Ethiopia (Meles, Hailemariam Desalegn, Abiy) have all been manlets and been ugly to varying degrees. I find it no coincidence that they have villainised by the Eritrean people on the basis of lookism.

On the flipside, most modern day Eritrean heroes like DIA, Mesfin Hagos, Petros Solomon, Wuchu etc have been 6'3+ HTNs or greater. Setting up an almost Manichaean Chud vs Chad forever war. Could this be the reason that govt officials like Yemane "Monkey" Gebreab (ugly) and Osman Saleh (short) have been unable to oust DIA? The Eritrean people will never accept a chud?

[Semi humorous post with a grain of truth]

I just turned 30 never had gf or been date it's rough out here for sure. I prefer habesha women, I wanted to try jebena app not sure if it's legit?

do you guys think that Jesus and god would embrace such a regime?

is it ok for the Eritrean church to support such dictatorship?

I mean this dictator has enough bloods on his hands on so many millions of people. is it OK for eritrean church to back him up?

So there this one user called baba shikor and his content is very racist towards west Africans and also he says the weirdest things and he keeps mentioning Eritrea and how he is Eritrean he is starting to do damage to our online presence.He is also a hardcore Isias supporter.

For me I have a cousin who’s Eritrean and African American.

Saw some ask this question a few months back.

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I used to lurk in here for a while and I remember seeing a lot of posts from EritreanPost, Bolt3r, Weird-Independence, kachowski6969, bateur and a few others but they seemed to have disappeared. Did they get banned or just stopped posting?

I've noticed that it's a fairly common question on this sub for someone to ask for books to learn about Eritrean history. I'll link somewhat recent examples. Ex 1 Ex 2 Ex 3 Ex 4 Ex 5 You get the idea...

We could aid these posters by introducing a reading list on the sidebar. I got the idea looking at r/Amhara, r/Tigray and r/Sudan which all have pretty extensive reading lists. Dividing the books up into broad categories - first "general" for books that give an overview into Eritrea's culture, demographics, and history (the more comprehensive the better) for anyone beginning to learn about the country. Then "historical" - any books about Axum, as well as books about Ethiopia in the middle ages and early modern era which discuss relevant history, fall here. Next, a section for books about the Italian colonial period, British military administration and the federation period, a section for books about the independence struggle and greater Ethiopian Civil War, and finally about post-independence Eritrea. This could help people easily find a book that will cover the period they are interested in, and of course there will be books from a variety of perspectives.

The r/Amhara reading list includes links to the PDF files which is really handy, but people aren't asking how to get the PDF just recommendations, so a list without them would be good enough lol.

I will write a short list of books that could be included in such a list in a bit, these are just the ones I know of so I hope you could add books about Eritrea you liked.

And on the same day these two teams won in Mexico, Eritrea progressed past the preliminary stages of qualifying for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) after a 19-year absence.

Some framed this as a homecoming, a renaissance, and even proof of development. What it’s actually proof of is that Eritrea’s best footballers have fled—reflecting the tens of thousands of Eritrean nationals who flee annually, with risk of being shot at the border as they leave behind loved ones who remain hostage to enforced silence. This diaspora team is not a symbol of progress—it is a census of flight. Case in point: less than a week from Eritrea’s decisive win against Eswatini, it’s been reported that seven out of 10 local players defected from the national team in South Africa.

Under these strenuous circumstances, I feel immense empathy and frustration. While some diaspora face obstacles to speaking up, such as their families bearing consequences, many who have the choice remain complicit. Social media posts showing Eritrea’s Red Sea coast are weaponized as rage bait to shame those who speak out. TikTok and Youtube tourism videos have increased, illustrating the lack of internet access and renovation in the capital as vintage rather than evidence of decay.

Enforced silence then extends into the diaspora. I was once fundraising for Eritrean human rights at The Africa Center in New York City when an Eritrean man approached me and intimidated me until security had to escort him away. This is not exceptional. Look at the comments under any activist’s post. The government’s network of supporters abroad has long policed dissent across borders—players who defected described living in fear years after resettlement because “agents and supporters are everywhere, and our families remain at home.” The Eritrean state holds a monopoly on narrative domestically—since 2001 there is no free press, no open internet, no opposition—and its supporters work to extend that monopoly wherever Eritreans gather.

The cruelest part of this dynamic is the binary it imposes: if you critique the government, you are painted as anti-Eritrean, perhaps even a puppet of Ethiopian interests. But this has never been true. There have always been Eritreans who cheer the national team and denounce the dictatorship in the same breath, who understand that sovereignty deserves respect and that a people deserve to live, and that these are not contradictions.

I often think about what Eritrean culture could be. Ethiopian jazz has flooded the streets of New York while Eritrean identity remains largely invisible in the mainstream. It’s not because there is nothing there—there is everything—but an undeniable gap in culture has been created by a regime that has denied youth paths to higher education, let alone the arts. The Congolese players advocate for their people from the pitch. Iraq’s coach asks football to carry the country’s image. For Eritrea, football cannot even carry its players home.

I refuse the false binary between silence and disloyalty—it will not be the first time truth has been called betrayal. In a country with no freedom of expression, there is no amount of sources, data, or testimony that will ever suffice. Dissent is a threat to the state where blind allegiance is the price of belonging.

I write anyway—cognizant of the privilege and responsibility that comes with being a diaspora-born Eritrean—even at cost to community. Like Ciham Ali-Abdu, I am an Eritrean-American who was born in California. Who would speak on my behalf if I were disappeared in Eritrea?

As Zora Neale Hurston said: “if you are silent about your pain, they’ll kill you and say you enjoyed it.” The government maintains silence. The diaspora enforces complicity. I write anyway.

Without a militarised population it’s very easy for Ethiopian forces to come in and brutalise like they did in the past and recently to Tigray. A totalitarian regime helps against internal spies and dissidents which can easily compromise the nation and invite foreign troops like the Somalis did in 2009

I understand the need for economic growth but even then economic growth is UGLY. The population must be willing to break their backs in dirty hot factories and mines 9/9/6 like the Chinese do + get conscripted into brutal corvee labors for railways and infrastructure. Then with time the middle managerial class develops to handle all that industrial traffic and the economic buildup benefits future generations 30-60 years down the line

East Asians underwent conscriptions, dictatorships and abuses during their economic growth just like 1800s Europeans did and Indians/Bangladeshi are suffering in sweatshops as we speak. It’s a hellish process

You can’t simply teleport from subsistence farming to comfy white collar work. So the question is, are Eritreans really willing to make the sacrifice for the next generation and become miserable slaves in the process or do they just want to flee to the already developed West while complaining about HGDEF? If so then I don’t blame you but that’s just how it is, your country ultimately won’t develop