How to melt the world into words

(Book Review) Book: HOW TO WRITE FOR SUCCESS Author: BRENDA MOHAMMED Number of Pages: 196 Review: By ALEM HAILU G/K Publisher: Amazon Price: US $9.00 Aside from relating how the author-poet Brenda... Read more »

Girma Yifrashewa talks Love, peace via his new grand Piano

The Skylight Hotel in Addis Ababa,was packed with enthusiastic audiences who attended the first grand piano concert in Ethiopia ‘Bringing Culture’,by the one and only Ethiopian classical pianist GirmaYifrashewa on January 30.... Read more »

Letter to the art column editor

(From Fawn) A call for contributions of aspiring poets, kids who want to try their hands on poetry Fawn our former interviewee and contributor has suggested a spot on The Ethiopian Herald... Read more »

Carelessness makes us to pay a lot!

One’s lifelong exertions could be changed into ashes in a fraction of a second. A million birr worth ma­terial wealth could suffer destruction on the wake of a certain disastrous incident. People... Read more »

Honorary book highlighting Ethiopia’s unity to see light of day

A book encompassing a wide spectrum of messages revolving around love, unity, elderly blessings, prayers, best wishes, reconciliation, harmony, and other top issues embracing messages of Ethiopians will see the light of... Read more »

Teaching Under a Tree

My Grandma had a father, Who was also a foresighted teacher; Who thought a women’s place Is not in the kitchen Nor to wash a thousand times The constituents of a chicken,... Read more »

The Herald is a Bird!

Rising, rising like a bird That has just taken off its perch Carrying messages of hope and endurance Witness the rise of our courier Herald In prose and verse and poetry Words,... Read more »

Giggle Sticks

Come shop with me on hippie lettuce tea in the heels of Helsinki, sipping drams on trams-go-round the city Legging we’ll go in flamingo silk hose on pink stilted Stilettos munching the... Read more »

Stepfather

One Saturday afternoon, to avoid the dazzling rain drubbing the roofs and roads of Addis, I took a refuge in one of the famous brothels by the National Lottery Building behind Cinema... Read more »

Ethiopians look for love during Timkat celebration

Getahun Fetana spent years admiring Emebet Melaku from a distance before plucking up the nerve to speak to her, taking advantage of a chance encounter during Timkat, the Ethiopian Orthodox celebration of... Read more »