Cinematographer’s opinion of Ethiopian film industry

BY ADDISALEM MULAT In the contemporary world where artistic and innovative aspects are dramatically surging, exploiting the power and ability of picture taking or video recording at the expected standard has to... Read more »

Greenery campaign in affected tourist-destination areas

BY DARGIE KAHSAY Following the greenery initiative of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (PhD) in 2019, seedling plantation has become a common practice during the rainy season in Ethiopia for the past three... Read more »

Lucy in the UNESCO configured with replica

BY YOHANES JEMANEH Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, a song which was released in 1967 by the famous English rock band The Beatles was an inspiration to an American Paleoanthropologist Donald... Read more »

Aspiration, the fuelling route to success

Short Story  BY JOSEPH SOBOKA A newly married couples, only two weeks since they got married, were closely sitting side by side as the fever of love has engulfed them and they... Read more »

Epic poets and literary mythologies versus modern political myth-makers

BY MULUGETA GUDETA Ethiopia and her major river the Nile have attracted the attention of great ancient epic poets, historians and travel writers. No wonder then that Herodotus who is considered the... Read more »

The intricate ways and the shackles of love

BY JOSEPH SOBOKA Love is kind feeling. It is a situation when people show thoughtfulness and sympathy. Love is a situation in which someone expresses concern about somebody else and shares feelings.... Read more »

Turning Addis into a green, spacious and open city

BY MULUGETA GUDETA Addis Ababa is a city of contrasts between the new and the old, between the haves and haves not, and between the past and the present. These contrasts have... Read more »

From Mahletay Yared to Mulatu Astatke Ethiopia, the birthplace of new music

BY MULUGETA GUDETA “A prophet is not respected in his country of birth” says an old Ethiopian adage. The late Maitre Artist Afewerk Tekle, one of the internationally acclaimed pioneers of modern... Read more »

‘’Rebirth’’

BY ZERFNESH AGZEW Like a twinkling star Shooting any where Oh/ Eagle strong creature You are a long distance viewer You are farsighted All the way strongly armed From any group of... Read more »

A brief look at hatred and enmity

For a lay man, enmity is crudely an antagonistic mental attitude held against someone who is considered harmful to one’s wellbeing. In other words, it is a state or feeling of active... Read more »