Teodrose Fikre is a visionary author who is passionate about justice for all irrespective of our differences. Teodorse is named after and is the grandson five generations removed of Emperor Atse Teodrose II-the greatest king and visionary leader of Ethiopia. Teodrose writes of the hope possible in unity while addressing the very issues that lead to the scale of inequity that is pervasive in our society. Born in Ethiopia the same year Emperor Haile Selassie was overthrown in 1974, Teodrose Fikre is a prolific writer whose speech idea was incorporated into Barack Obama's South Carolina primary...

Blessings come through unexpected tribulations. Life truly is a binary, happiness and sadness cannot exist on their own any more than can light exist without darkness. This is what makes life at once magical and tumultuous; it's like the most wonderful enigma built on the pillars of uncertainty and clarity. It is with this binary paradigm in mind that I wrote this second book Soul to Soil. This is me embracing the hardships and maelstroms I have been through over the past two years and, in the same place of pains, planting a seed of hope and resiliency. Someone once said that we don't always...