Learning the outstanding universal value of the rock-hewn churches of Lalibela

Compiled BY MENGISTEAB TESHOME According to UNESCO affirms the 11 medieval monolithic cave churches of this 13th-century ‘New Jerusalem’ are situated in a mountainous region in the heart of Ethiopia near a... Read more »

Along-ethnic-lines-disunited Africa will be weak to succumb to subtle neocolonialism

BY HAFTU GEBREZGABIHER Adhering to the ideals of founding fathers/mothers of pan Africanisms, African leaders distancing themselves from power abuse, power mongering and rent seeking they must ensure independent Africa in the... Read more »

Nobel Prize in Literature 2021- A choice that proved all Bookmakers wrong

In the final week before the announcement of this year’s Nobel prize winner in literature, bookmakers were busy speculating who this year’s laureate would be. Among the names mentioned for this honor... Read more »

Chebera Churchura National Park

COMPILED BY MENGISTEAB TESHOME Chebera Churchura National Park (CCNP) is located on the western side of the central Omo-Gibe basin, in between Dawro zone and Konta Special Woreda of the Southern Nations,... Read more »

Haile Gerima on African Cinema and his Struggles to Get his Films Distributed

BY MULUGETA GUDETA Haile Gerima is considered the best Ethiopian cinematographer who has made it in the Diaspora although he is little known here at home. He is a director, producer and... Read more »

Portraying and claiming the sovereign right of Ethiopia on international stage

On planet Earth, above all things, territorial integrity and sovereignty become the top agenda and the highest priority of any country wherever it is located. Wealth or lack of it does not... Read more »

When is a friend for amid the spectrum of social crises if he doesn’t present himself for rescue?

A painter uses different colors to create an image of anything he has in mind. Just one color cannot form a meaningful picture. So needs a man someone or some people beside... Read more »

Ye Buna Bet Se’elotch (Pictures of the Taverns) or Mesfin Habte Mariam’s ‘Visual Satires’

The late Mesfin Habte Mariam was perhaps the foremost Ethiopian author of satirical short stories. He is mostly remembered for his collection of short stories entitled, "Ye Buna Bet Se'elotch" or the... Read more »

Solidarity, commitment to realize prosperous Africa

BY BETELHEM BEDLU Leaders of different brotherly African countries, high level government officials, religious leaders and elders, invited guests and many others took part at the ceremony of the formation of the... Read more »

Frantz Fanon’s classic and its practical implications to our time

BY MULUGETA GUDETA In “The Wretched of the Earth”, Frantz Fanon writes about national culture by saying that, “Culture has never the translucency of custom; it abhors all simplification.” For Fanon, national... Read more »