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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...

Apr 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...

Apr 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 have...

Apr 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...

Apr 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...

Apr 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....

Mar 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 Air...

Mar 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...

Mar 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...

Mar 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...

Feb 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...

Feb 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...

Feb 12 , 2022

Insurance Coverage, Modern Day Whipping Boy

The practice of princes employing commoners to take up their punishment was not uncommon, although evidence for it is not as strong. Historians debate whether this really happened. The commoners alleg...

Feb 5 , 2022

Addis Bus System Needs Space, 'Siltan'

It was with a bit of pride I used to show my friends the single deck Icarus buses on the roads, a Hungarian model primarily employed by the Anbessa City Bus Service. They were used to serve as governm...

Jan 29 , 2022

Gov't Service Digitisation Not Just About Gadgets but Attitude

It was a while since I had an issue finishing up with a government ministry. This time, I decided to do it online through their website. Sure, there are changes to the portal's look, and essential upd...

Jan 22 , 2022

No Matter the Goal, Cliff Says Rehearse

William Shakespeare has never been a stranger to expressing a certain truth in his lines. “All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players,” he once wrote in his 16th-century...

Columns

Commentaries | Oct 11,2025

The Human Flight a Failure of Political Imagination, Not a Mere Economic Policy

Ladislas Farago, a roving Associated Press (AP) correspondent, arrived in Ethiopia in 193...

Editorial | Oct 11 , 2025

TRADITION THRIVES AS COSTS CLIMB

As dawn broke over Addis Abeba last week, the city's arteries pulsed not with the usual we...

Featured | Oct 5 , 2025 . By REDIET YARED

TOMATOES TASTE OF INFLATION

Tomato prices in Addis Abeba have surged to unprecedented levels, with retail stands charg...

Agenda | Oct 12 , 2025

Ministry Shifts Gears as Number Plate Change Fuels Debate

A sweeping change in the vehicle licensing system has tilted the scales in favour of elect...

Fortune News | Oct 12 , 2025 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

View From Arada

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

Football Needs Champions on the Pitch, Business Acumen

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

Old Schools: Monuments to Contrasting Addis Abeba

Public Spaces, Landmarks Tell Stories, Spark Imagination

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

It's Customer Service, Not Penning the Air Force

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

Walking's Easy When the Vista Easy on Eyes

Too Much Self-esteem Derails Institutions

Easy for Schools to Label. Terrible for Everybody Else

Good Customer Service, Essence of Excellent Hosts

Insurance Coverage, Modern Day Whipping Boy