Category: Life & Culture

Bahta Gebrehiwot’s Life and Career

At 75, the singer talks about his feelings for music and his path to becoming one of country’s greatest music entertainers Newly arrived to the capital, fresh from three years at Gondar Public Health College, Bahta Gebrehiwot in his young…
New exhibition to open at LeLa gallery

A large collection of paintings by artist Mulugeta Tafesse will be on show in Addis Ababa this Saturday at LeLa Art gallery. The exhibition titled “Frivolous Marks” runs from October 20, 3pm onwards until 18 November. LeLa is honored to…
Asfaw Damte recalls Mengistu Lemma

Mengistu Lemma (1928-1988) was a leading Ethiopian playwright, novelist, poet, and scholar, who in the words of the late Prof. Richard Pankhurst may be considered the Molière, Bernard Shaw, or Gogol of Ethiopia. In this extract from interviews conducted on…
Richard and Rita Pankhurst’s Ethiopian Reminiscences

Ethiopian Reminiscences: Early Days by Richard and Rita Pankhurst, (2013) 293pp, Tsehai Publihsers, Sylvia, Richard, and Rita Pankhurst have long been renowned figures in Ethiopia “for their loyal championing of Ethiopia’s nationhood, their creative institution building, and their personal generosity”,…
Samuel Yirga named one of Africa’s 50 rising stars

Ethiopian pianist Samuel Yirga has been named among the 50 Africa rising stars by the prestigious Paris-based the Africa Report Magazine. According to August–September 2014 edition of the magazine, Samuel is named along with 50 other African rising talent. Through…