Info Nile By Jenny Kwon In Bahir Dar, surrounded by clusters of paintbrushes, buckets, and vivid paintings hanging on his studio walls, Eyayu Genet begins sketching his latest idea on the broad canvas beneath him. With only a black marker in hand, he lays out his vision: covering the bottom is water, symbolizing the Blue Nile River […]
The life story of Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou is almost as remarkable as her music. There could be no better entry to the joyful, life-affirming sounds of Ethiopian jazz. I once read the artist Dan Clowes describe Chopin’s Nocturnes as “like listening to ice water”. That description has often resonated with regards to the sound of a solo […]
BBC Renowned Ethiopian artist Aida Muluneh has taken a series of striking images to depict the harsh life of many women in rural areas – especially their daily efforts to obtain clean water for their families. Her Water Life series, which was commissioned by the charity WaterAid, will be on display at London’s Somerset House […]
Far Out Magazine By Sam Kemp Even if you’ve never heard of Hailu Mergia, you’ll recognise his story: it is one of fame, exile, anonymity, and eventual rediscovery. The multi-instrumentalist made a name for himself as the hot-fingered keyboardist and synth player of the 1970s Ethiopian funk outfit, The Walias Band, before being forced to […]
Africa is home to the world’s earliest known use of measuring and calculation, confirming the continent as the birthplace of both basic and advanced mathematics. The oldest mathematical instrument is the Lebombo bone, a baboon fibula used as a measuring device and so named for its location of discovery in the Lebombo mountains of Swaziland. […]
The creative industries constitute an important lever for economic diversification in Central Africa and can help countries of the sub-region build back better in a post-COVID-19 dispensation, said the Head of ECA’s Office for Central Africa – Antonio Pedro – to a range of actors from across Francophone Africa who attended a virtual conference dubbed “ResiliArt”. […]
“I’m always surprised when people see my work in an exhibition, they think it’s a painting,” says Ethiopia-based photographer Aïda Muluneh. But in her compositions of elegant Ethiopian women donned in bold explosions of color, she only incorporates paint on the bodies of her subjects and their backdrops. The body paint she uses is a visual […]
Gebremeskel Tesema, a priest and hermit, has been carving churches out of the solid bedrock at Dagmawi Lalibela in Ethiopia since 2011. Located in the Amhara Region in the north of the country, Dagmawi Lalibela is a series of five subterranean churches connected by open courtyards, short passageways and trenches. The rock – a grey, clay-like […]
Ethiopian jazz master Mulatu Astatke will be taking a break from his extensive 2018 European concert tour to play at the 19th Cape Town International Jazz Festival. This should come as no surprise given that he has been in global motion ever since his parents sent him to study aeronautical engineering in North Wales in 1956. But Mulatu (Ethiopians are […]
IBtimes The Weeknd’s next album will be based on the Black Lives Matter movement and COVID-19 pandemic The musician noted that the pandemic helped him create music about various issues The Weeknd is one of the best-selling artists of 2020 and his song “Blinding Lights” broke many records The Weeknd had the fourth best-selling album […]
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