Welcome to the Inaugural Habesha Mailbag I am launching the Habesha Mailbag with the help of a few friends who lent me their time and creativity to come up with some questions, enjoy the gursha sewoch.

by Teddy Fikre  written:  Friday, January 27th, 2012

Well the moment has come for the launching of the inaugural Habesha Mailbag.  Yes, I have changed with the time, I still don’t like the word Habesha, I prefer to be called Ethiopian.  However, the word is not going anywhere, and if it serves as a bridge for Ethiopians and Eritreans to identify with a common name—well who am I to hold a grudge?  So going forward, I shall call this the Habesha Mailbag. 

So you ask, what is Habesha Mailbag. Well it was influenced by one of the writers I idolize by the name of Bill Simmons. On a weekly basis, Bill would take questions and comments from his readers and then reply back with a wit and humor that would make me literally make me laugh my Qit off as I was reading the article.  Grant it, trying to emulate Bill Simmons is a tall order—after all, Bill was a writer for multiple late night comedy shows.  But More >