Ethiopian Film Week – Reaching out to the global audience

BY MULUGETA GUDETA Efforts to advertise Ethiopian films abroad seems to be gaining momentum with this year’s staging of Ethiopian Film Week that is slated to present local films to foreign audiences.... Read more »

 The philosophy of Gondarine farmer

BY KFLEEYESUS ABEBE Gondarine farmer might live adjacent to country’s highest peak Dashen mountain or around lake Tana or flatland near Ethio- Sudanese border. The life principles are though very similar. He... Read more »

 A glimpse of heaven

BY SENAIT G/HIWOT I have had a glimpse of heaven When I was seventeen My mind had shut down Its whispers and its frown And in the silence I felt my true... 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 »

Is it not a kiss of death giving a terrorist a kiss of life?

BY A STAFF REPORTER After a mild engagement with Terrorist TPLF subsided following the defeat of the terrorist group that usually uses human waves, making a podium in a shade of a... Read more »

  Why Ethiopian Musicians deserve to win this Year’s All Africa Music Awards

BY MULUGETA GUDETA Africa in general and Ethiopia in particular have a long history of musical development dating back to ancient times. According to available information on the history of African music,... Read more »

 An Artist who lived like a true patriot, was buried like a king

BY MULUGETA GUDETA The death and burial ceremony of the late Ethiopian singer Madingo Afework reminded the public and his countless fans of the events that accompanied the death of another Ethiopian... Read more »

Promoting religious tourism potentials

BY STAFF REPORTER Gishen Mariam DebreKerbe Monastery, located 483 kilometers north of Addis Ababa in Ambassel Woreda, North Wollo Zone of the Amhara State, is one of the oldest, most scared; and... Read more »

We get our kicks from kicks

 BY ALEM HAILU G/KRISTOS Please allow us a stalemate Please allow us a stalemate Roughish, grabbed by the throat We’re gasping for oxygen, against Fellow countrymen, yet To fully unleash our hate!... Read more »

Who Is Muhammad

BY FARHAT What a year was 570 AD A person was born, a prophet to be Muhammed that was his name People were misguided and that’s when he came He would go... Read more »