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Jun 5 , 2021

Gold Glitters, Miners Sweat, Bleed

It was a life-changing experience when I headed to a large scale gold mine in the Oromia Regional state, Gujji Woreda. Amongst the people that went with me, only the driver of the old land cruiser had...

May 29 , 2021

Artisans Were the Past. They Also Make Up Part of the Future

There was a wood workshop in the vicinity of my house, initially cramped in a building whose construction was stalled. Owned and run by a young man, his employees have always been handy in helping me...

May 23 , 2021

From Local Concoctions, There's Much to Learn

Just a week ago, a grand-motherly figure in her eighties knocked on my door. As I opened, she closed her mouth with her netela, a handmade cloth, as a substitute for a face mask, and asked me if I had...

May 15 , 2021

Swinging Era Swings Less: Dusk of Éthiopiques

George Jones, a British actor from the 19th century, portrayed the legendary fictional figure Hamlet, the Danish prince in William Shakespear's play of the same name, in theatre. He was completely imm...

May 8 , 2021

Grammar Shall Set Students Free

It was a week or so ago. I was reading the quirky 17th-century British poet John Taylor's rollicking poems. The poet, with little understanding of English grammar as it translates to the 21st century...

Apr 30 , 2021

The Viruses that Come Back to Haunt Society

The waste collection spot in our neighbourhood, which is on my usual route, is looking different these days. The frequency with which the waste is picked has improved over the years. The owner of the...

Apr 24 , 2021

Technology Deserves Museums Too

Nothing feels the same as it is does for the first time. It was as I was contemplating going to an exhibition and workshop on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Addis Abeba, which opened on April 15, 20...

Apr 17 , 2021

The Unsung Heroes of Ethiopia's Literature, the Editors

Edgar Allan Poe was quoted in 1845 saying that the enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age. It was because he believed this would present...

Apr 10 , 2021

The Jazzy Feeling of the Transcendental Music Experience

It is not an object identified as being the perk of studying at Addis Abeba University – which was instead its superimposing sights, the library, classrooms, cafeteria, trees and the flowers. Unforg...

Apr 3 , 2021

Death of Melody in Ethiopia's Music Scene Greatly Exaggerated

Recently, one of my friends argued that melody is dying. I counter-argued that it will never die and reminded him of the last time everyone was complaining of melody's demise. It was a time when music...

Mar 27 , 2021

Long Way to Go for Ethiopian Art Scene before Stendhal Syndrome

Not long ago on a sunny morning, while I was contemplating the route of my daily walks, an idea long kicking around in my mind popped up. It was to buy a frame from a gift shop for a painting I bought...

Mar 20 , 2021

Road to National Theatre Starts at School

A theatre show was staged by a foreign community school not long before the COVID-19 pandemic was to disrupt nearly every part of our daily lives. The performing actors were the school's teachers. It...

Mar 13 , 2021

From Mismar Tera with Love: the Spectacle behind Ethiopian Soccer

Soccer is neither only a show of wits and guts nor a playoff between competent players. It is a layered game that involves players, spectators and the general atmosphere of the moment. The dusty sun-b...

Mar 6 , 2021

Tradition of Coffee, Conversations in the Digital Age

Not long ago, I met one of my high school mates after ages of not seeing each other at one of the three-star hotels in town. Close to us were youngsters, flipping through their phones and laptops. Peo...

Feb 27 , 2021

More than Aesthetics, Flowers Offer Hope

A hoot and holler away from my house, in consonance with a new cobblestone alleyway, residents were busily face-lifting their undersized open spaces – in their way. It was weeks back. Notable were...

Feb 20 , 2021

Brave New Digital Age Ought not Be Daunting

It was during the height of the HIV epidemic in the early 2000s, a Sunday morning. I was having coffee and a pastry at a cafe that its owners had recently converted from a bakery. It was unique within...


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