Rescuing Jimma’s precious heritage from collapse

BY TSEGAY HAGOS Jimma city is located in the south western part of Oromia State. The city is marked for its coffee, green environment, suitable weather and friendly people. In addition to... Read more »

Haileselasse’s Machiavellian Genius

BY TEKLEBIRHAN QGEBREMICHAEL Short Story “Everybody is equal,” said Selamawit in a mock trial organized by the law school at Haileselassie University (now Addis Ababa University) defending the plaintiff who happened to... Read more »

Ethiopian contemporary art Icon: Artist Alemtsehay Wodajo

BY ALAZAR SHIFERAW (Written from the horse’s mouth style/ Alemtsehay Wodajo) Astonishingly, today as before Ethiopia has versatile-female -shining stars. But sometimes odd ideas cross my mind. On such occasions I ask... Read more »

Ethiopian food culture and two months of fasting season of lent

BY MULUGETA GUDETA Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia are just starting the “grueling” two months of fasting known as Lent. For the coming two months, tens of millions of Ethiopian adherents of the... Read more »

Child and mother amid the hilarious exodus (Description of a come-back-home situation)

 BY JOSEPH SOBOKA A child of probably four was walking looking down; with his small stride stooped parallel to the narrow path struggling to keep pace with his mother; he was stumbling... Read more »

Soul never dies

BY MEHARI BEYENE Enjoying without desires Dialogue with souls Living with only pocket money Walking with skeleton touch Toning your soul with flesh If soul never dies, Flesh never lies The devil... Read more »

Egypt all-out to double cross Sudan

BY ALEM HAILU  As the noted and sagacious Sudanese Journalist Sohaile Abdulahi Christened Him “The Egyptian white dog” In whose mind greed Jealousy and conceit made Ever-expanding heavy fog, Rabid, opts to... Read more »

Tesfaye Tirfe and Legesse Teferra

BY TEKLEBIRHAN GEBREMICHAEL Tesfaye Tirfe was a brilliant high school student. He passed his ESLC (Ethiopian School Leaving Certificate) exam with very great distinction and could have easily joined Haile Selassie University... Read more »

Ethiopian Artistic celebrities need to enjoy the respect and appreciation they deserve

BY MULUGETA GUDETA The cases of Afework Tekle and Mulatu Astatke are telling indictments of the Ethiopian public’s neglect of two of the its artistic geniuses who did a lot for the... Read more »

The problems of book publishing in Ethiopia: Different perspectives

BY MULUGETA GUDETA A study published in the International Information and Library Review, the author of the article Metikou Ourgay writes about the history of publishing in Ethiopia between 1500-1900 saying that,... Read more »