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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Vogue, By Shiryn Ghermezia An Ethiopian-Israeli rapper making waves in Tel Aviv’s growing hip-hop music scene was the subject of a Vogue magazine profile published on Tuesday. According to the popular fashion magazine, which praised Eden Dersso’s “captivating and provocative work,” the rapper stands out as one of the country’s few female artists in the genre. “Ethiopian culture is fundamental” to Dersso’s […]
Ethiopian poetry comprises of one of the many unique and amazing secrets held dearly by the people of Ethiopia. Hi We are all aware of how little is known by non-Ethiopians about the countless rich and varied aspects of Ethiopian life. What’s known is mostly acquired from scant and fragmented media reports about famine, poverty, social unrest, […]
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 […]
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: Saving Christianity for the Kingdom of Heaven: The Untold Story” from Christian Faith Publishing author Dr. Lawrence E. Henry Ed.D dives into the captivating tale of Ethiopia and its people as they work for God’s Kingdom and spread Christianity across the lands. MEADVILLE, PA. PRWEB “Ethiopia: Saving Christianity for the Kingdom of Heaven: The […]
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. […]
Twin Cities Maaza Mengiste was in Rome, doi itng research for her new novel, “The Shadow King,” when she found a picture taken in Ethiopia in 1935, when Italians invaded. It was, she says, an incredible moment for her. “The picture was of a woman in uniform, wearing an ammo belt, with a horse. She […]
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