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Author: Elizabeth Giorgis Reviewer: Arefaynie Fantahun Modernist Art in Ethiopia (New African Histories) Ohio University Press (February 11, 2019) 360 pages, ISBN-10: 0821423479, ISBN-13: 978-0821423479 An updated expansion of her doctoral dissertation in History of Art and Visual Studies from…
የማታ ጀምበር ካንዱ ቤት ወዳንዱ በጣራው ተራምዳ፣ የጋራውን አናት እየነካች ሄዳ፣ እዩት ከስር ጥላው፣ የማይደርስበትን፣ እዩት ሰውን ጥላው፣ ሲለፋ ሲባክን። ~ ገብረክርስቶስ ደስታ Evening Sun Tiptoeing roofs of neighboring hamlets, Caressing the crown of the knoll, See the setting sun…
France’s President Emmanuel Macron has arrived in Addis Ababa on Tuesday as part of his four-day tour of East Africa. The visit has provided the French press an occasion to give attention to events in the country. Le Monde, the…
Recent events are bringing Ethiopia closer to the limit beyond which ethnic politics enters into a zone perilous to the alliance of the ruling parties and, by extension, to the unity of the country. Among these events, the most explosive…
Names of victims of Ethiopian plane crash The pilot of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed shortly after takeoff from Addis Ababa on Sunday, killing 157 people on board, had alerted controllers that he was experiencing difficulties and wanted to…
Gedu replaced by Ambachew Mekonen The reason behind resignation remains unclear Gedu warned against the dangers of polarized political climate The president of the Amhara National Regional State, Gedu Andargachew tendered his resignation Friday which was accepted by the Amhara…
Book Introduction Text by Günther Schlee The Boran are a southern Oromo group, which occupies a senior position in Oromo traditional history. Their contact period with the Amhara was shorter than that of other Oromo groups and their dialect has…
Tourism Ethiopia, formerly known as the Ethiopian Tourism Organization (ETO), a government agency that is given the responsibility of promoting and marketing the country as a tourism destination, is under fire over decision to ban Ethiopian delegation from participating in…
Charles Sutton was a Peace Corps Volunteer and the sole American member of the Orchestra Ethiopia, a music and folk dance group which was active in Addis Ababa in the sixties and seventies. Besides playing the one-stringed masenko for the…
Merera Gudina discusses Ethiopia’s ongoing political transition Merera Gudina was among the speakers giving remarks at an event organized by the Institut Français des Relations Internationales (IFRI) in Paris on February 21. The event, organized by the independent research and…