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Nefae Utman:
Great Works That Need To Be Found

Dessale Berekhet (translated by Efrem Habtetsion)
The incident happened more than 100 years ago; but its significance, mystery and strangeness still keeps it important. The story of a young Eritrean begins in a village called Gheleb, 60 kms from Keren; but it is still unknown where it ends. Read more


HISTORY AND LANGUAGE OF THE TIGRE-SPEAKING PEOPLES
edited by GIANFRANCESCO LUSTNI
As with other regions in the Horn of Africa, nation-based traditions of historiography and epistemologies in this area have usually perceived the space inhabited by Tigre-speaking societies as somewhat on the margins, on the very periphery of the dominant historical polities in the broader area, Read more

A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW OF ISLAM IN ERITREA
BY JONATHAN MIRAN Bellingham, Wash., U.S.A.
The study of Islam in Eritrea—the faith of approximately half of the country’s population—is still in its infancy. Similar to other fields of scholarly inquiry regarding Eritrea, research on the historyof Islam in the region has become more feasible only since the early 1990s as the newly independent state became accessible to researchers, both locally-based and foreign. Read more

The Study Of The Tigre Language E.D.Thompson
The Tigre-speaking people live in the northern corner of Eritrea in a triangle with the Red Sea coast on one side, the Barka River on another, and the southern side being more or less a line between Massawa and Agordat. Read more

Tigre Language: Strong Base for a Bright Future by Bereket Dwssale
Tigre language is one of the Semitic languages spoken in Eritrea. It is the second most spoken language (following Tigrigna) in the country. However, its speakers are widely distributed over the country. Read more

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Tigre, Tigray, Tigrinya – Ethnicites, Languages and Politics Dr.Orville Boyd Jenkins
Sources of information on the peoples of the horn of Africa are sometimes confusing because of conflicting terminology. Names of peoples and languages differ due to different names used in the Amharic or Tigrinya. Read more

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The tribes of Sahel, and others Aida Kidane

 Blin Orthography: A History and an Assessment. Paul D. Fallon University of Mary Washington (2006)

 Triple Take: Tigre and the case of internal reduplication Sharon Rose, University of California, San Diego

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The Seen, the Unseen,the Invented Misrepresentations of African "Otherness"¯ in the Making of a Colony. Eritrea, 1885-1896 Silvana Palma -

 Eritrean Atudies Review

Eritrea Re-photographed Landscape changes in the Eritrean highlands 1890 – 2004 An Environmental-Historical Study Based on the Reconstruction of Historical photographs

HOW WE MANAGED TO LIVE AT MASSAWAH:
By HENRY BL.ANC, M.D., MI.R.C.S.E., F.R.G.S., etc.,
Staff-Assistant-Surgeon, Bombay Army.

Re-reading the Short and Long-Rigged History of Eritrea 1941–1952: Back to the Future? Nordic Journal of African Studies

Discussing ethnohistory: The Blin between periphery and international politics in the 19th century - Wolbert G.C. Smidt
Up to date Assessment of the results of the research on the Dahalik language (December 1966 Ā– December 2005) Marie-Cloude SIMEONE-SENELLE Director of Research

 Language, Education, and Public Policy in Eritrea. African Studies Review, Apr 2003 by Woldemikael, Tekle M.

The Habab and Hedareb SUDAN NOTES AND RECORDS VOL.36, 1955, KHARTOUM

Blin Orthography: A History and an Assessment. Paul D. Fallon University of Mary Washington (2006)

 Political History of Eritrea before colonisation (1865-1885)Wolbert Smidt: The example of the Blin people

 Memories of a British envoy to Abyssinia's Emperor Theodore.

MULTI-LINGUALISM AND THE OFFICAL LANGUAGE IN ERITREA

BIBLIOTHECA ABESSINICA STUDIES CONCERNING THE LANGUAGES, LITERATURE AND HISTORY OF ABYSSINIA Edited - by Dr. E. LITTMANN
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How king Solomon begat king Menelik
Tigre - English Text and translation
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