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Sport: much more than just fun, games, and entertainment
Wednesday, 12 December 2018 01:22 | Written by Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion |
  
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Sport: much more than just fun, games, and entertainment
Wednesday, 12 December 2018 01:22 | Written by Dr. Fikrejesus Amahazion |
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While Eritrea’s developments toward peace and cooperation have rightly dominated headlines over the past several months, the area of sport has also begun to attract renewed interest. Several weeks ago, Eritrea played host to the first edition of the Africa Cup cycling competition.
Cycling in Eritrea: beyond sport… 
A child asked his father a question, to which his father answered, “I don’t know.” Being a curious and persistent child, the child asked his father another question. Again not knowing the answer, the father responded to his son’s question negatively.
According to the early Greek philosophers, people got sick because they suffered from some kind of imbalance in their body.
It is hard to find a biography on an Eritrean in Tigrigna or most other Eritrean languages. There are some reasons why this is so. Tigrigna was used as a medium of instruction in Eritrean schools in the 1940’s. On a small scale, it was used for the same purpose when the Swedish Missionary Society decided to use local languages in the schools it opened in the Eritrean highlands in the late 19th century. In the 1920’s, the same society started publishing a religious magazine, Melekti Selam. Similarly, the Italians used Tigrigna when they published a leaflet named Nay Elet Were (Daily News). Other than these attempts, Tigrigna was not used for mass communication, or for classroom instruction, on a wide scale until the 1940s.
Can poetry be successfully translated into another language? It depends on the kind of poetry and the capacity of the translator. I have read some books, which show the capacity of the translator.
Mikael Joel has inscribed his name in the annals of table tennis history as the first player to win a competition match for Eritrea in an international tournament.