Traditional music in Ethiopia which is played with old instruments dates back to thousands of years and can more or less be traced back to the emergence of the most famous Ethiopian... Read more »
Addis Ababa, which is a historical City, the seat of the African Union and other international organizations, was not very strategically planned and not built with world-class standards. Even though its name... Read more »
“Don’t care where you come from; as long as you’re black, you’re an African.” In How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney writes, “Africa is the continent of drums and percussion. African peoples... Read more »
There is an Amharic saying about aging and youth that we grew up listening to and believed in. It goes like this: “Almost everything can be recovered but childhood is impossible to... Read more »
There is hardly any human undertaking that culture does not touch. Culture has two definitions. The first is culture as arts or human intellectual achievement in general while the second consists of,... Read more »
In the days of yore, hankering for positions leaders were mostly marked for pulling back one another to climb to the top of the power ladder. Instead of cooperation for development and... Read more »
Although Africa is often maligned in the Western media as a “dark” continent without hope or imagination, it is impossible to deny the resurgence of African arts and artists who are showing... Read more »
Judy Mowatt’s album “Black Woman:” an ode to African women, everywhere When discussing the objectives of her musical career, Judy Mowatt says, “I wanted to express myself and the kind of songs... Read more »
For a long time, the larger segment of the gigantic media houses of the conceptual western block has been offering us a distorting political prism via which we diminishingly perceive the one... Read more »
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why... Read more »