africa
A taste of Ethiopia in Vancouver at Fassil Ethiopian Restaurant
February 21, 2025By: Phone Min Thant, Staff Writer Last week, I had the chance to visit Fassil Ethiopian Restaurant, home to warm meals and located not too far from the hustle and bustle of the Commercial-Broadway skytrain station. It’s named after King Fassil (Emperor Fasiladas), who founded Gondar, a city in Ethiopia, after “tiring of the pattern of migration that had characterized the lifestyle of so many of his forefathers.” As soon as I entered, I was greeted by a neat interior gracefully filled with paintings ranging from everyday Ethiopian landscapes to portraits. There were only two staff on the floor on…
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Black people are not your guinea pigs
July 25, 2020By: Idara L. Udonya, SFU student All over the world researchers, epidemiologists, and other health experts are working around the clock on a vaccine for COVID-19. The race for a vaccine, however, presents some concern considering the histories of medicine in…
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Political Corner: China is imposing a neo-colonialist rule in Africa
January 9, 2019Written by Sakina Nazarali, SFU Student China recently announced that they will be investing $147 million into a copper mining project in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In Africa, Chinese investments such as this are not uncommon; between the year…
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