Author Archive for Nolawi



TG Died! 289 Comments

I don’t know much of Tigist Shibabaw except that I first heard her voice on bole2harlem’s album. Needless to say how much I appreciated that album because it was pure quality. Yesterday night I heard she passed away unexpectedly. No details were given on what happened but this is truly sad. She had an amazing [...]

Fists Up 279 Comments

When I was 22, which was 6 years ago I read a book called Quarter Life Crises. Although I don’t remember which one, it was true stories of young twenty something’s that committed suicide or other atrocities on themselves based on stress caused by life after college. Student loans and perplexity on the purpose of [...]

African Warming 43 Comments

Why should Africa pay for others mistake? The Global Warming talk has been increasing every since Mr. Gore shed light on the topic to the world. He won an Oscar and the Nobel Peace Prize for his environmental activism; deservedly so. The scientific consensus identifies elevated levels of greenhouse gases due to human activity as [...]

The Sweep Wave 102 Comments

One of those things that starts in a conversation at midnight on a regular day in a regular year. Our own .mike was swept of his feet… some eleven months ago… to the challenge myself try to beat the odds by supporting him.” According to him. I heard him and my issue and apparently every [...]

year in review 3,081 Comments

Picture from Nechisar National Park located in the North Omo Valley region of southern Ethiopia. Download highres version here. I have said that I am not much of a believer for the resolution phenomenon, but that didn’t stop bernos blog readers from emailing me to write a post asking readers to list their New Years [...]