BY MULUGETA GUDETA The late Ethiopian writer and translator Mammo Wudeneh once said at a conference on translating foreign books into Amharic, that the important point was to have a good command... Read more »
BY MULUGETA GUDETA The season of holidays and festivities is downing on us so to say beginning with Buhe and followed by Tsome Filseta as precursors to the last and biggest celebrations... Read more »
BY MULUGETA GUDETA The African Union’s Economic, Social, and Cultural Council recently launched the second edition of the Young Africans Writing Contest that aims to bridge the gap between African youth and... Read more »
BY MULUGETA GUDETA According to some media pundits, the rise and growth of social media nowadays are increasingly creating both opportunities and perils to society at large. On balance, the opportunities outweigh... Read more »
BY KFLEEYESUS ABEBE Artists in the developed world have huge influence or as some call it they have “soft power” to create political change or contribute for betterment of socioeconomic conditions of... Read more »
BY EPHREM ANDARGACHW Brokers come in all sizes, characters, and backgrounds. I took a day off from the filling station I was working for at the time just to rent a house.... Read more »
Are We Heading for a “Rophnan revolution” in African Music? BY MULUGETA GUDETA When the legendary Bob Marley invented a new music genre known s reggae beats, the world never expected that... Read more »
BY MULUGTA GUDETA Last week’s award ceremony organized by the Ministry of Culture to honor Ethiopian artists is the second such government sponsored event in a matter of a year or two.... Read more »
BY ITSUSHI KAWASE Walk as you envision the universe. Walk with the wind, in the rain, and along the river. Walk in total darkness. Walk across the surface of the ocean where... Read more »
BY KFLEEYESUS ABEBE Art in a good times is expression of beauty, calmness, comfort and evoke new ideas that would sustain the good atmosphere. But art is such significant in hard times.... Read more »