In general parlance, language, whether in multicultural societies or in mono-cultural and mono-linguistic ones, plays a defining role in the development or backwardness of a continent or a country. Africa is no... Read more »

As the plane alighted at Domodedovo International Airport in Moscow, a surge of excitement and fear washed over me. This was my first time traveling outside of Ethiopia, and the total scale... Read more »

Traditional music in Ethiopia which is played with old instruments dates back to thousands of years and can more or less be traced back to the emergence of the most famous Ethiopian... Read more »

Addis Ababa, which is a historical City, the seat of the African Union and other international organizations, was not very strategically planned and not built with world-class standards. Even though its name... Read more »

“Don’t care where you come from; as long as you’re black, you’re an African.” In How Europe Underdeveloped Africa, Walter Rodney writes, “Africa is the continent of drums and percussion. African peoples... Read more »

There is hardly any human undertaking that culture does not touch. Culture has two definitions. The first is culture as arts or human intellectual achievement in general while the second consists of,... Read more »

In the days of yore, hankering for positions leaders were mostly marked for pulling back one another to climb to the top of the power ladder. Instead of cooperation for development and... Read more »

Although Africa is often maligned in the Western media as a “dark” continent without hope or imagination, it is impossible to deny the resurgence of African arts and artists who are showing... Read more »