Time to leave behind mediocre movies and address serious themes

 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!

 “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 »

Willingly falling prey to Arat Kilo’s predatory attack

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 »

Short Story

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 »

From Motherhood to Servitude: The beauty of character and the imposed challenges

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 »

Cattle counting ceremony: Unexplored culture of the Wolaita community

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 »

The little military mix-up !

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 »

Democracy and economic development by force!

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 »

What more has the play write to Impart?

The sphere of art is so vast that what so far has been related to the readers will be incomplete if the following narration of the play write is left unmentioned. The... Read more »

The Battle of Benishangul

Short story  The Battle of Benishangul is a computer – simulated water war between Ethiopia and Egypt. Of course, the Nile, the Blue Nile to be precise, is the big bone of... Read more »