Hade Zanta – The Conscript: Rewriting the Foundations of African Literature
This episode of the Eritrawi Podcast begins a three part series on one of the earliest and most overlooked works of African literature, Hade Zanta The Conscript, written in 1927 by Ghebreyesus Hailu i...
12 Apr 20min
Amelia Earhart’s Red Sea Transit: Massawa to Assab (1937 World Flight)
In 1937, Amelia Earhart attempted one of the most ambitious journeys in aviation history, a flight around the world along the equator.This episode of Eritrawi Podcast follows a rarely discussed segmen...
5 Apr 20min
Recovering Eritrea’s Lost Printed Past
This episode on Eritrawi Podcast explores the evolution of literacy and print culture in Eritrea through the lens of early printed materials, private letters, and recent preservation efforts.Drawing o...
29 Mar 24min
The Canned Meat Factory in Eritrea That Fed Italian Soldiers in WW1
This Episode on Eritrawi PodcastDuring World War I, far from the battlefields of Europe, a factory in Eritrea was feeding an empire.In Asmara, a canned meat operation became a critical supply hub for ...
22 Mar 20min
How Eritrean Mechanics Mastered the Machine |The Engineering Genius of Eritreans
This episode on Eritrawi PodcastIn the early 20th century, automobiles arrived in Eritrea as foreign machines, designed in Europe and built for completely different roads and conditions.But in Eritrea...
15 Mar 22min
The Eritrean Cavalry Who Fought Tanks: Amedeo Guillet’s Guerrilla War in Eritrea
This episode of Eritrawi Podcast : In 1941, during the collapse of Italian East Africa, one of the most extraordinary and little known campaigns of World War II unfolded in Eritrea.Led by cavalry offi...
8 Mar 23min
Fessehatsion: The Eritrean Pilot — A Forgotten Colonial Story
This episode of Eritrawi Podcast uncovers the extraordinary and nearly forgotten story of Fessehatsion Beyene, an Eritrean pilot whose life collided with Fascist Italy, colonial Somalia, and the racia...
1 Mar 17min
Woldeslassie (Domenico Mondelli): The First Black Pilot Who Defied Fascism
Domenico Mondelli was born Wolde Selassie in Eritrea.He would go on to become the first Black pilot in Italian military history and later, an Army Corps General.Serving in the Regio Esercito during Wo...
22 Feb 16min
