When modern technology makes publishing books look like playing games

BY MULUGETA GUDETA One can perhaps outline some of the vicissitudes of book publishing suffered by Ethiopian writers as follows: printing costs that are skyrocketing every time beyond the reach of most... Read more »

Cultural diplomacy as a powerful Tool for Expediting Regional Peace

BY MULUGETA GUDETA Cultural exchanges between two or more countries in a given region like the Horn of Africa can be taken as an instance of using soft power for the purpose... Read more »

 “It’s gonna be a bright” for Africa Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank

BY KFLEEYESUS ABEBE I remember watching an interesting TEDx lecture by Nigerian-born Canadian professor Pius Adebola Adesanmi. He was confident illustarating “Africa is the forward that the world needs to face”. Africa... Read more »

 “HOLD MY HAND”Pan Africanism in Tsegaye Gebremedhin’s Poem

BY: EPHREM ANDARGACHEW Tsegaye Gebre Medhin has written many unforgettable and consequential poems that span through time. In his poem, someone could notice his passion, deep understanding, pride, and patriotism the writer... Read more »

Respect for Arts, Crafts as precondition for modernization

BY MULUGETA GUDETA Most Ethiopian craftsmen like weavers and potters, to name but a few of them, are still exercising their crafts in the good old ways without achieving any significant technological... Read more »

 Breathing new life into Ethiopian Film Industry

BY ADDISALEM MULAT It is interesting to note that the Ethiopian film industry has been going through multifarious negative and positive effects since time immemorial. Apart from progressing at a snail’s path,... Read more »

 “THE ROAD NOT TAKEN”

From different genres of art, no other genre gets very deep into me like poetry. I like poetry very much that I skip pages of a novel or a short story to... Read more »

Abrehot, or the beginning of a long journey towards mental emancipation

BY MULUGETA GUDETA It may sound ambitious but it can be done. Turning a modern library into a center of African and global learning is not only something out of a dream.... Read more »

 Mulugeta Gudeta-Among Ethiopia’s handful multilingual writers

“I am interested only in writing and not fame, money or other considerations.” The first time I got to know the name Mulugeta Gudeta was back at the University When I was... Read more »

 Addis Ababa: A rising megacity of striking contrasts, 5G technology

At the time of its birth, Addis Ababa was a small and sparsely populated settlement in the middle of forests and rivers, with no electricity and running water, no roads or telephone... Read more »