The Role of Inter-African Cultural Exchange in Africa’s Integration Process

The recently-concluded summit of the African Union largely focused on urgent political and economic challenges facing the continent while it gave relatively little attention to cultural issues. However, whenever one speaks of... Read more »

Hard truths versus fake news-The AU Summit that proved naysayers wrong

The 33rd Conference of the African Union (AU) that just finished its deliberations here in Addis Ababa was a milestone in the sense that it helped the international public make the distinction... Read more »

Now that the Festive Season is Over, Time to Sit Down for Serious Business

The Ethiopian calendar year is structure in such a sophisticated way that it has set aside time for work, fun, marriages and more serious engagements like spiritual pursuits. The Ethiopian rainy season... Read more »

African resistance to liquidate colonizers’ empire – Pan Africanism

BY JOSEPH SOBOKA A united struggle can break any shackle how strong it is. A person cannot prevail over his attacker no matter how hard he tries, especially when he is alone... Read more »

Music icons Africa lost related to coronavirus

 BY YOHANES JEMANEH The coronavirus pandemic has robed the world its various icons and Africa is not different. The musical stars of the continent died of COVID 19 in one or the... Read more »

Africa Needs to Stand United Now than at any Time in its Modern History

BY MULUGETA GUDETA The late Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, former Ghanaian president and outstanding African patriot, writer and theoretician of Pan-Africanism is the first politician who clinically analyzed the real nature of colonialism... Read more »

THE UNIVERSAL ETHIOPIAN ANTHEM AND HOW IT CAME TO BE WRITTEN

Each time I attend at Liberty Hall I come away with the music of the Universal Ethiopian Anthem Ringing in my ears. The melody is a stirring one possessing the power and... Read more »

Shaping the fate of Africa ensuring sustainable peace, unity, perseverance are the themes of the African anthems

Extricating themselves from the shackles of domination Africans were hell-bent to gain their independence. Vesting hope on the almighty, strengthening their unity, letting their quest for justice resonate with in Africa and... Read more »

Africa my Africa

Africa my Africa Africa of proud warriors in ancestral Savannahs Africa of whom my grandmother sings On the banks of the distant river I have never known you But your blood flows... Read more »

The Spring Festival in China

BY CUI LIYUN  The Spring Festival, which was meant to worship God and ancestors in ancient times, is the most important festival in China so that we have seven days off to... Read more »