BY LEULSEGED WORKU Making pots out of clay in Ethiopia harkens back to the birth of Christ. Pottery remains a popular tradition in different corners of the country. However, this magnificent time-old... Read more »
BY ALEM HAILU A weekly devil council about evil prowess is being held in hell.Devils were standing on tongues of fire waving their tails and howling in a frightening manner that sends... Read more »
BY MULUGETA GUDETA From the production of “Who is Hirut’s Father?” to “Guma” and then to “Aster”, Ethiopia’s modern filmmaking is slightly older than 60 years. Beside feature films, those decades were... Read more »
“No Man is an island” is an old metaphor coined by the English poet John Donne in one of his famous poems of the same title first published in 1624. The opening... Read more »
It was on a pleasant morning of a distinct Saturday when people were in the mood of buoyancy pursuing their daily business. The loud clangor of shoes and the mumbling voices of... Read more »
Dawit was an inquisitive young man of twelve years of age. He asked his history teacher: “If Ethiopia’s history dates back as many as three thousand years, why is she lagging so... Read more »
We are all born of a father and a mother. The phrase ‘the mother land implies’ the true love of the country like the love and kind heartedness amother has for her... Read more »
The cultural practice of cattle counting ceremony has been largely practiced by the Wolaita people, People of Southern Ethiopia, particularly in Kindo Didaye Woreda, one of the twelve Woredas of the Wolaita... Read more »
All the best-educated generals and the most renowned intellectuals in Ethiopia thickly surrounded him and pleaded with him to become the next prime minister of the country, but Dr. Ashenafi Daba would... Read more »
Short Story Tekola and Sirage were classmates at Addis Ababa University. They were economics majors. On the surface, they appeared to be equally intelligent, but Tekola’s incentive to work hard was much... Read more »