For most people, their adult personality is attuned to the demands of society they grow in. Just like individuals have personalities, nations too tend to have a personality which seem to identify it and its people.

What it means to be a refugee.

The 1982 Israeli-Lebanon war is a tragic event that took the lives of 17,825 Lebanese in the 1st year (alone) and 752 Israelis (in total).

Can you answer the question “What is an asylum seeker?” with a good straight forward answer? Or re you just looking ‘em up for your studies? Either way, this post will help.

North Korea is a country whose people live permanently in the dark shadow of its tyrannical leader Kim Jong ll. People live in fear with little or no prospects. They hear stories about their prosperous neighbor, South Korea-many have relatives there. Many succeed in making the dangerous 2000 mile journey to South Korea and a bright future. But many don’t and are returned to North Korea, where they are treated as traitors and will face imprisonment or at worst public execution.

During the battle of Guernica in the Basque region of Spain, in 1937, Hitler’s Germany and Mussolini’s Italy sent warplanes to bomb the center of Basque culture. The bombing shocked the conscience of non-fascist western Europe and marked the initiation of “total war”, when civilian populations were killed in war to demoralize the enemy. The bombing still figures prominently in Basque culture.

Trust me, what happened to me was much worse than others! I am from the oldest, poorest and uncolonized African nation called Ethiopia.