Why after a promising start Ethiopian film industry has sunk into oblivion

BY MULUGETA GUDETA By all measures, Ethiopia was an early starter in Africa to be introduced to the film enterprise more as a magical entertainment than a feasible business and the last... Read more »

Developing a Vibrant Intellectual Culture in Africa

BY MULUGETA GUDETA The Cambridge dictionary defines an intellectual as “a person whose life or work centers around the study or use of ideas such as in teaching or writing.” The term... Read more »

The AU should display boldness to build the leverages for Africa we want

BY MULUGETA GUDETA Arts and culture in Africa have always been important in the long struggle of Africa to recover its lost soul from centuries of colonial rule and decades of neocolonialism... Read more »

Gondar city’s unfading spiritual and historical grandeur

BY MULUGETA GUDETA The northern Ethiopian city of Gondar is recently undergoing a resurgence following the recent celebrations of both Genna or Christmas and Timkat or the baptism of Jesus Christ in... Read more »

Myself

BY SENAIT G/HIWOT Should i smile when i feel sad Should i plead when i feel mad Should i adjust to what they think So i may not be perceived as weak... Read more »

How to celebrate holydays in a mood?!

 BY KFLEEYESUS ABEBE Holydays are special and handful days when people stop monotonous day to day life and give time for things they give high value or just for themselves; to rest,... Read more »

A bat

 Early at night If you see A flying rat In a way That is not right A zigzag Be sure it is a bat. Sitting on A big tree and Winking with... Read more »

For heroic Diaspora Ethiopians, homecoming is more than routine visit

 The arrival of Ethiopians from the Diaspora coincides with two main events, namely the handshaking of Ethiopian federal forces and TPLF on the one hand and the celebrations of the two major... Read more »

Ancient Gelta Mariam Church Historical archive with tourism potential

The Southern Ethiopia is mostly visited by local and foreign tourists for its cultural and natural assests. It is rare this region to be seen as a place of pligrimage. Its historical... Read more »

Why African writers are underrepresented in Nobel Prize for Literature

BY MULUGETA GUDETA When last year the Nobel Prize for literature went to the African writer Gurnah, Nigerian Nobel winner Wole Soyinka, considered by many as the colossus African literature, said that... Read more »