Author Archive for Nolawi



An Obama Minute 104 Comments

A few weeks ago I got an email from Denver asking me if I could modify an Obama poster to have the “yes we can” motto in Amharic feedels. Thus I did and sent it back. Last week I get the same poster that I modified in an email from someone I know in Atlanta [...]

a real letter 54 Comments

I abhor checking my mailbox because it’s usually bills and credit card applications. The thing we call Posta, is obsolete. People now have cell phones that are text messaging capable. I also abhor text messages, I don’t return them. If you want to send me a message, send it to me in email or if [...]

Patriotism, a blanket for white resentment 17 Comments

What MLK would say to JW? Most of you have heard the recent controversy of the so labeled racist Rev. Jeremiah Wright, who according to the mainstream media made some incendiary remarks that are construed as racist and unpatriotic. Context I for one didn’t see anything erroneous with the snippets taken out of context. First, [...]

Land mine Pageant 313 Comments

This Photo is a screen shot from a documentary called “Small Targets: Children and Landmines in Mozambique,” which explores the issue of land mines in Mozambique and how it directly affects the most innocent of victims; the children! There are 110 million land mines in 70 countries, of those about half are in 11 African [...]

Transcend the divide 606 Comments

I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother – a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, [...]