Author Archive for Nolawi



Roots is Here! 276 Comments

Roots is part of the body of a plant that develops, typically, from the radicle and grows downward into the soil, it is also the very foundation or source; origin; base; beginning More than the preliminary usages of the word root, it also used in connotations with other words, the disambiguation’s are endless. It is [...]

EthioMeetUp! 70 Comments

After an online discussion a few months ago, a small group of people suggested that we have a social/business gathering…EthioMeetup, composed of local DC area Ethiopian Professionals, is an environment in which people get introduced to each other for various social opportunities. Em, ya it has been done hasn’t it? Well it has, and is [...]

to resolve or NOT 61 Comments

I think resolutions, you know the self-pledges millions of us TRY to keep every year, are bull-shit! Each years beginning, we pledge: ‘This year I will try to lose weight, start exercising, go back to school, pay down a debt, move to New York and become a model.‘ Then we also remember the resolutions of [...]

Kente 86 Comments

1958 was the year Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah first visit the the united states. He wore Kente Cloth, which I happen to have seen at a recent wedding I happened to be present at. Kente also known as nwentoma, is the traditional and ceremonial clothing of the Ashanti tribe of central Ghana. Kente is [...]

Dabo 7,772 Comments

I love dabo very much, that is why I prefer to get a sandwich to a plated meal. I eat a sandwich at least five a week I think, whether it’s a philly cheese steak, to a chicken pesto with roasted red pepper in olive bread panini. They have one called the Manhattan in Georgetown; [...]