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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
By Michelle Cohan, CNN Tucked behind a colorful tin roof dwelling in Addis Ababa, acrobats of all ages are spinning, contorting and balancing in ways that seemingly defy the laws of physics. Off to the left of the action is their ringleader, Dereje Dange — a world-class juggler who can easily keep seven hats going […]
Ethiopia is one of the oldest Christian countries located in the Horn of Africa and remains one of the few in the world where parchment manuscripts still constitute an integral part of church life. At the same time, printed liturgical books are getting more accessible, while manuscripts are getting recognized as a precious historical heritage. […]
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 […]
By Lynn Ischay, The Plain Dealer CLEVELAND, Ohio — From across the street, Ernesto “Ernie” Spinelli looks like a 20-something kid: black pant legs pulled up unevenly to the knees, ball cap on backward with curls spilling everywhere, well-defined calf muscles ending in fashionable work shoes. The 70-year-old on the scaffolding at Cleveland’s new Ethiopian Cultural Garden would laugh at that notion. […]
One of Ethiopia’s greatest innovations, Ethiopian Jazz, termed “Ethio-jazz,” is a unique fusion of traditional Ethiopian music with jazz, Afro-funk, soul, and Latin rhythms. Marked by eerie and ancient-sounding tones, typical of traditional Ethiopian music, Ethio-jazz also displays the sensual undertones of soulful jazz. Read on to explore the dramatic story of Ethiopia’s most recognizable music genre. […]
Face 2 Face Africa, by MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR Born on the small mountain town of Boda, Ethiopia on this day in 1936, Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin was one of his country’s most important literary figures and the best known. Considered by many to be Ethiopia’s greatest playwright, Tsegaye had earned a degree in 1959 from the Blackstone […]
By James Estrin Aida Muluneh was a middle school student in Canada when local newspapers and magazines started running dramatic images of starving children in Ethiopia. The photos struck her as odd. She was born in Ethiopia, and the pictures were nothing like the memories she had of the country she left when she was […]
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