I am Mary Hooker and I work as an Education Specialist with a small NGO called the Global eSchools and Communities Initiative (GeSCI). GeSCI was established in 2004 with a mandate to provide strategic advice to Ministries of Education (MoEs) in developing countries on the large-scale planning, integ...

Meet Lucy - she’s the start of so many wonderful things that happened today. So Many Wonderful Things Today - Stevie Wonder is Honored by the President, for his contributions. The Kenyans can now clearly prove that life did begin in the Oduvuai Gorge Indeed.. Hopefully this will end the argume...

Memo to Citibank employees: if you receive a letter requesting $27 million for the Bank of Ethiopia, check to make sure it wasn't posted in Nigeria. The GOP attacked Obama on the stimulus... but this guy couldn't name a single piece of "pork," not even a general category. You have ...

Has Lucy become a white elephant for museums? Halfway through the five-month exhibit, the Pacific Science Center faces a half-million-dollar loss resulting in layoffs of 8 percent of the staff, furloughs and a wage freeze, President Bryce Seidl said Friday. ... The center had hoped to draw 250,000 v...

I knew where I'd surely find the great inauguration party: in that glorious Victorian cupcake of a ballroom where partygoers celebrated Abraham Lincoln's second swearing-in, up on the third floor of what is now the Smithsonian's American Art Museum. This year it was called the "Lincoln 2.0 Ball."...

Sometimes it's hard for me to write about things that are overwhelming me. My thought haven't organized themselves in a nice and neat fashion in my brain. I can sit at the keyboard, and type and delete, type and delete. Overload.This is one of those things.But my urge to tell you about this books is...

The individual traveller's "age of adventure" has long since been ended by "S&T" (science and technology: an abbreviation that dates me). Now our planet's few remaining undeveloped expanses are accessible only to well-funded expeditions protected by mobile phones and helicopters - enterprises unattr...

Tigray region, in northeastern Ethiopia is home to many churches and monasteries that reside in remote places, making the journey to them not less enjoyable. Though officially being one of Ethiopia’s star attraction, I haven’t seen many tourists in the rock hewn churches of Tigray.  Ti...

this is the Salty portion of todays presentation.. and yes it’s as salty as a dead seahorse up in this mug. lets start with the Pirate Asses in Somalia.. they got to speak with the Lil 12 year old girl. now they go showing they ass by not even tossing the baby a chunkachedda on they ducatdrop....

One of the things that drew me to Ethiopia was the Rastafarian community. For Rastas, Ethiopia is Zion, the motherland. I heard that there’s no serious “Rasta activity” in Ethiopia, but I was curious enough to check it out.   Rastafari Place in Ethiopia     Haile Sellasie I gran...