Ancient History by Mark Cartwright The Songhai Empire (aka Songhay, c. 1460 – c. 1591 CE) replaced the Mali Empire (1240-1645 CE) as the most important state in West Africa (covering modern southern Mauritania and Mali). Originating as a smaller kingdom along the eastern side of the bend of the Niger River c. 1000 CE, the Songhai would expand their territory dramatically […]
CNN by Ginanne Brownell, Over the last five years contemporary Ethiopian artists have been making a name for themselves on the global art market, but it’s been a long time coming.After almost four decades of political turmoil, famine and wars, the East African country has found increasing social and economic stability, with a growing middle […]
NBC News By Denise Chow In one of the hottest places on Earth, along an arid stretch of East Africa’s Afar region, it’s possible to stand on the exact spot where, deep underground, the continent is splitting apart. This desolate expanse sits atop the juncture of three tectonic plates that are very slowly peeling away […]
Heart of the healer by Dr. Stephanie Red Feather Do you ever suspect that we are not as intelligent nor advanced as we have ever been? Over 30 ancient cultures have recorded the rise and fall of human civilization in a vast cycle of time taking approximately 24,000 years (some sources say 26,000 years) to […]
By Laureate Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin I am the first Earth Mother of all fertilityI am the Source I am the Nile I am the African I am the beginningO Arabia, how could you so conveniently have forgottenWhile your breath still hangs upon the threads of my springsO Egypt, you prodigal daughter born from my first loveI […]
In Book 3, chapters 16–26, Herodotus narrates the fate of three military expeditions planned by Cambyses. One never gets off the ground, another vanishes in the desert sands, but the third, against the Macrobioi Ethiopians living at the southern edges of the earth, has attained fame despite being no less a failure. Its fame is […]
Splice Today By Ken Silverstein A tourist guide on how to stay high on khat in Addis Ababa and keep it legal. Today as I write is April 30, 2011 in Ethiopia. No, I’m not high on khat (alternatively spelled qat, and pronounced chaht in the country), though I was for four straight days during […]
African Union The Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) have elected H.E. Felix- Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), as the new Chairperson of the African Union for the year 2021. The event took place today, Saturday 6 February 2021 during the ongoing Thirty-Fourth (34th) Ordinary […]
Japan Times Earth will be home to 8.8 billion souls in 2100, 2 billion fewer than current U.N. projections, according to a major study published Wednesday that foresees new global power alignments shaped by declining fertility rates and graying populations. By century’s end, 183 of 195 countries — barring an influx of immigrants — will have fallen below […]
The countries’ leaders both promised change, but only one has delivered. Forigen policy BY HILARY MATFESS, ALEXANDER NOYES Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, in power for 37 years, died at 95 on Sept. 6. But his legacy, and his ruthless brand of authoritarian politics, lives on through his successor, Emmerson Mnangagwa. His country, in turn, is […]
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