By Steven Uanna My Childhood in Addis Ababa 1958 – 1961 The year was 1958. I was four years old and living outside of Washington DC in Springfield Forest, Virginia. That’s across Franconia Road from Robert E. Lee High School.…
Ermias Yirgalem is a student at Sichuan University, a national university located in Chengdu, the administrative centre of Sichuan Province in Southwest China. He shares his experience of living and studying there. It is now almost a year and a…
Frédéric Garnier, 72, is a retired French dentist who lives in the suburbs of Paris, Chantilly-Gouvieux. He spent the early parts of his life in the eastern town of Ethiopia, Dire Dawa, where his father was working for the Djibouti-Addis…
Country Roads (growing up, exposures, decisions, and reflections) By Aklillu Kidanu Wolde Giorgis 283pp, Self-published …Odysseus sighting his island after years of wandering; the return, the return, the great magic of the return. -Milan Kundera, Ignorance Aklilu Kidanu’s “Country Roads”…
The nation paid its respects to the man who was Ethiopia’s president for more than a decade and a respected environmental activist, Girma Wolde-Ghiorgis, who died on Saturday, during a state funeral on Dec. 19 at the Holy Trinity Cathedral…
Peter Gill, in his book, Ethiopia and Foreigners: Ethiopia since the Live Aid (Oxford University Press, 2010), discussing the political chaos that followed in the wake of the 2005 election, which, among other things, led to the fragmentation of a…
A seasoned scholar, a subtle poet, peerless moral hero: Tedla Bairu recalls Mengistu Lemma This is the third in our series of posts to celebrate the life and times of Mengistu Lemma (1928-1988), an Ethiopian playwright, dramatist, poet and diplomat,…
Maria Thomas, author (“African Visas” and “Come to Africa and save your Marriage”) and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Ethiopia, probably said it best: “If you’ve ever lived in Ethiopia, you never really put it behind you. You follow the…
