Why There’s a Statue of Bob Marley in Ethiopia
WHEN YOU THINK OF JAMAICA, you’re likely to conjure a mental picture of Bob Marley before you think of anything else. There’s no other country in the world where...
Ethiopia: We won’t relocate our embassy to Jerusalem
We have no intention to relocate our embassy from Tel Aviv to the occupied Jerusalem, the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry announced yesterday.
Speaking at a press conference, the ministry’s spokesperson, Meles...
The Ethiopian Banana That Flourishes in Drought and Heat
At first glance, Ensete ventricosum may look like a banana plant, with huge green fronds and a towering, thick brown pseudostem. But if you peel these orange, banana-cousin fruits,...
Mulatu Astatke musics Hollywood movie to Apple iphone X
Ethiopian musician Mulatu Astatke musics from Hollywood movie broken flowers soundtrack to Apple iphone X advertisement. Broken Flowers soundtrack "Yekermo Sew (A Man of Experience and Wisdom), Iphone x advertisement...
I Hate Cooking Will I Be Single For The Rest of My Life?
Yesterday was a holiday, which means there is food, a whole lot of food. Which has to be cooked, obviously. And like every other holiday the issue of cooking...
Facefood – the Facebook of the Restaurant World
Facefood is a new eatery in town with the “look and feel” of Facebook. Except at Facefood, unlike its online muse, there is a waiter that takes your order,...
Haymanot Tesfa @ SOAS Concert
The Passion & Tranquility of Ethiopian Amharic Song
The music of the Ethiopian highlands uses a unique pentatonic modal system called qenet, of which there are four main modes: tezeta, bati, ambassel, and anchihoy. Many...
Zeritu Kebede and Joss Stone hold concert
Joss Stone Live and Unplugged featuring Zeritu Kebede was the event to be at on Saturday, December 2, 2017. The concert took place at the Mosaic Hotel.
First time in...
Ethiopian Musicians Charged With Terrorism for ‘Inciting’ Song Lyrics
Seven producers and performers of a popular YouTube music video were charged in Ethiopia in late June with terrorism for producing ‘inciting’ audio-visual materials and ‘uploading them on YouTube’. The group members were arrested...
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Ethnic Identity and National Loyalty – Conflicting Direction
In Ethiopia, people are no more afraid to talk. To be precise, they do talk inside their homes and cars, or in the backrooms...
Akon in Ethiopia to mark 122nd anniversary of Battle of Adwa
Senegalese-born – United States pop star, Akon, is in Ethiopia as part of events to celebrate the infamous Battle of Adwa which happened 122...
Hailu Mergia: the Ethiopian jazz legend who jams in his taxi
He fled his native country with his group, the Walias Band, in 1981 and now drives a cab in Washington DC, in which he...
