Domestic chores not laurels await you (A short story)

The little girl strutted confidently to the blackboard and returned back shivering to her seat, which she found a marathon away from the board. Forty students blazed their devilish eighty eyes that... Read more »

Educational dilemma in post-colonial Africa, the challenges of modernization

 Education is generally defined as the process acquiring knowledge, skills, values and attitudes that enable individuals to develop their full potentials and lead successful and fulfilling lives. However, the best definition of... Read more »

 Gutu Abera:Popularizing Afan Oromo Music with Urban flavor

Afan Oromo Music has sizable audience in Ethiopia and around. It is even listened by people who don’t speak the language as it’s loved for its unique heart touching melody and authencity.... Read more »

 History of tree planting in Ethiopia, and significance in folk culture

In the Biblical story of the Garden of Eden, we read that God, “also put specific trees -the Tree of Life and the tree of knowledge of Good and Evil (Genesis 2:9).... Read more »

 Green Legacy:reviving what is already in Ethiopian Cultures

Greenery was one of the things Ethiopia described by proverbs, songs and literaty works admire Ethiopia’s greeness and richness in biodiversity. Paintings are still showing impressive natural endowments of Ethiopia. Indeed, it... Read more »

The hits of Wolaita, South Music in general

Paranomic view, beautiful culture and valuable lesson Ethiopia is often described as a mosaic of people and cultures. Its southern part strengthen this truth containing over 45 indigenous groups with unique ways... Read more »

 Diaspora association ESFNA promoting Ethiopia, supporting entertainment

Ethiopians and Ethiopian origins in different parts of the world are proud of their roots. They take every opportunity to promote their culture and build their country’s image that is tainted by... Read more »

 Making languages drivers of dev’t or modernization in Africa

In general parlance, language whether in multicultural societies or in mono-cultural and mono-linguistic ones plays a defining role in the development or backwardness of a continent or a country. Africa is no... Read more »

 Music adaptation, the art of blending foreign and local beats

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 »

 Mengistu Lemma: literary legend devoted “To serve your Majesty and to write”

In a study of Ethiopian modern literature, play wright and poet Mengistu Lemma is at center for his works, views on art and modernism manifest Ethiopian literary richness and development. Sara Marzagora... Read more »