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July 2 , 2022 . By TADESSE TSEGAYE

How 'Man from the Stars' Helps Navigate the Good, the Bad

It was a Thursday. It all started from the thought of having a tight schedule that day, as I complained about the list of items I had to attend to and my ineptness to follow some of them online, as some were just payments. This was without the need to mention that I waited for a deadline for an issu...

June 25 , 2022 . By TADESSE TSEGAYE

The Internet Gives More than It Takes

It is not talked about as much. But the age we live in offers unprecedented access to a world of information. For those willing to learn, there is no shortage of knowledge. I recently attended a class by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); it was a lecture posted on YouTube. Its topic was on how an aeroplane flies. The course was facilitated by a young Indian professor. As admitted by many who watched (or attended), who know nothing about flying, after watching this presentation from start to end, we now have useful knowledge of the principles of flight. Moreover, through her i...


June 18 , 2022 . By TADESSE TSEGAYE

The Arts, Windows to the Soul of Society

Last Monday, I had to rush to the historic Hager Fikir Theatre. It was almost as immediately as I noticed the notice on Facebook with a catching title that I left my home as I had only a few hours left before the start of the programme. A debate was to be held for the fifth time, and I thought it was worth skipping other commitments to attend. En route to the theatre, I was engulfed with a range of thoughts on how the debate on whether art and artists' freedom of expression is exercised in present-day Ethiopia would unfold. With questions such as whether a given theatre needs an evaluation...


June 11 , 2022 . By TADESSE TSEGAYE

Few Drive Traffic Accidents Like Minibus Drivers

It is not hard to find something to lament about these days. One glaring issue in Addis Abeba is what may bring such changes on our roads regarding road traffic accidents and attitudes towards safety. It would not be too out of place to hypothesise that it is just the times where there is conflict everywhere, and people feel like there is not as much reason to live for another day as it used to be the case. I raised the issue to a friend. It was reminiscent of a discussion we had a month ago, as we repeatedly met for coffee. It was almost every other day and the issue dominated our discussi...

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June 4 , 2022

Run from Potemkin Village, Embrace the Parisian Path

In line with the vow we made six years back with my niece, I started to regularly walk in the evenings on the sidewalks of the areas under near-Manhattanisation and the roads leading to them here in A...

May 28 , 2022

Switch Off the TVs, Video Games. Bring on the Poetry

Some stories flow like poetry. It is reported that, to the amazement of many, “Happy Birthday to You” had been, till very recently, a copyrighted song that earns million of dollars a year; as it i...

May 21 , 2022

Times May be Hard but Fear, Resignation Does No Good

Distance is never an issue for people looking for new ideas. John Trudgen introduced the Trudgen stroke to Europe in 1893, after seeing it used in South America. The stroke, employing a double over ar...

May 14 , 2022

From Seoul to Kazanchis, Passion Pays Dividends

The 1992 World Junior Championships, for athletes aged 19 or under, and held in Seoul, South Korea, was one of the more dramatic sporting events of the past post-Cold War era. Josephat Machuka, a K...

May 7 , 2022

The Mother's Courageous. Jury Still Out on the Audience

Some of the things that suddenly creep into our minds are strange. For me, one was the worrisome essence of "merchants of death,” a term applied to any group of manufacturers or businessmen who make...

April 30 , 2022

Football Needs Champions on the Pitch, Business Acumen

Diski, a South African phrase, refers to a style of football that includes showboating, with ludicrously exaggerated fake passes, fiendishly convoluted displays of ball control and all kinds of provoc...

April 22 , 2022

Even Luddites Can't Escape the Ugly, Bad, Good of Internet

I had a rendezvous with a friend last week on a Saturday afternoon. I used the Addis Abeba light rail system, as my friend and I resided on extreme ends of the station’s network. We agreed to ha...

April 16 , 2022

Old Schools: Monuments to Contrasting Addis Abeba

The day I was born, my mother made a vow to take me to the Debre Libanos monastery in the North Shewa zone every year. The plan went smoothly up until I reached the fourth grade. It was then that the...

April 9 , 2022

Public Spaces, Landmarks Tell Stories, Spark Imagination

It happened just as I opened my Facebook account. I had been away from it for a while and missed the theatre-themed group pages I had joined. On my homepage, I encountered an upsetting piece of news a...

April 2 , 2022

Can't Stand the Labour Market Heat? Get Out of the Kitchen

After my friend earned his first degree, he was assigned to one of the government ministries. It was during the Imperial era. Immediately after he reported to his duty, he started to face challenges....

March 26 , 2022

It's Customer Service, Not Penning the Air Force

In the 1950s, following the Soviet Union’s successful launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth, an Australian schoolboy, Denis, sent an urgent letter to his country’s...

March 19 , 2022

Nothing Like the Experience of Live Shows: Theatre's Revival Overdue

Last week, on a Friday, I visited the National Theatre, a landmark since opening in the 1950s, to watch a show. Getting there was a drama by itself. I called Feres, a taxi-hailing company, for the...

March 12 , 2022

Walking's Easy When the Vista Easy on Eyes

It was for the first time that I had an all-pedestrian lane walk. It was a cool day, thanks to an unusual cloud cover. It surprised me how a walk started as I was arguing with myself for not being out...

March 5 , 2022

Too Much Self-esteem Derails Institutions

Nestor, the character Homer envisaged both in the Iliad and the Odyssey, is used as a synonym for a wise old man. The king was about 70, when he was the oldest and most experienced of the Greek chieft...

February 26 , 2022

Easy for Schools to Label. Terrible for Everybody Else

There are always memorable moments from our time in school. One of those, for me, was when we were first introduced to the mind-boggling (pun intended) anatomy of the human brain and its major constit...

February 19 , 2022

Good Customer Service, Essence of Excellent Hosts

Alain de Botton blended literary biography and self-help guides to write “How Proust Can Change Your Life” in the late 1990s. It is a remarkable insight into how best to live life, expounding on P...


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