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Apr 10 , 2026

Artistic Creativity Connects the Self with the Past

An exhibition called Beneath the Roof by Eyob Kitaba, curated by Jermay Michael, unfolds as a reflective and carefully constructed exploration of urban transformation and the layered nature of materia...

Apr 4 , 2026

Music Bridges Cultures

Around Lem Hotel, near Sidra Hotel, there is a villa house tucked quietly under the name Mesob Habesha Music Center. The gate stands wide open, almost as if it has been waiting all day for guests to a...

Mar 28 , 2026

Local Talents Meet Global Styles

On March 21, the British Embassy hosted the third Creative DNA Ethiopia (CDNA) gathering in collaboration with Creative Hub and Ice Addis, bringing together designers, creatives, and fashion enthusias...

Mar 21 , 2026

Why Do Other Cultures Travel So Easily While Ethiopia Stays at Home?

I was met by an explosion of colour and sound on March 8, 2026, where I attended Holi, the festival of colours, at the Indian Embassy, off Dejazmatch Woldegabriel St., in the Aware neighbourhood. T...

Mar 14 , 2026

It Isn't Only Online. The Webs Misogyny Comes Home

I recently attended a research presentation hosted by Addis Powerhouse, where the room was filled with feminist groups, activists, and organisers, all trying in their own ways to contribute to a safer...

Mar 7 , 2026

Artists Deserve Applause, Not Eulogy

From the moment I approached the gate of Addis House of Culture, on Yohannes St., inside the National Palace, for the grand opening of a monthly film membership club, it felt different. The air felt c...

Feb 28 , 2026

Coffee Festival Wants Parliament, UNESCO to Certify a Living Ritual

Roasting beans crackled, and smoke curled inside the Adwa Victory Memorial Museum, on Eden St., when the second festival on the traditional coffee ceremony turned the Addis Abeba landmark into a livin...

Feb 21 , 2026

Priced Out of Print, Book Market Starves on Scale, Scarcity

Domestic publishers in Addis Abeba juggle tiny budgets and hedge their bets with print runs that could fit in a studio flat. Each small batch fattens the unit cost, pushing cover prices higher and loc...

Feb 14 , 2026

With Ride-hailing Service, Even a Fragile Promise Carries Weight

A few weeks ago, what could be a familiar drama for many unfolded before me. I was late, logged my details in the taxi-hailing app, and was matched with a driver supposedly one minute away. I calle...

Feb 7 , 2026

In the Shape of a Tej Glass, a Country's Past Comes into Display

The humble "Birillé", a familiar glass flask used for Tej, a local honey beer, was elevated from a utilitarian object to a prism through which centuries of cultural, political, and social evolution w...

Jan 31 , 2026

How Developing Countries Can Make the Most of AI

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, industrial policy has crept back into respectable economic discourse, after decades of being derided as misguided interventionism, particularly for developing c...

Jan 24 , 2026

What Happens When Paid Work Disappears?

What we typically refer to as “artificial intelligence” is, in practice, a set of data-based systems (DS). These technologies are already transforming nearly every aspect of human life, giving ris...

Jan 17 , 2026

Grok Tests Whether AI Governance Means Anything

In recent weeks, Grok, the AI system developed by Elon Musk's xAI, has been generating nonconsensual and sexualised images of women and children on the social-media platform X. This has prompted inves...

Jan 10 , 2026

What Democracy Means for a Society's Bottom Line

Democracy is in trouble. For nine consecutive years, more countries have suffered a weakening of democratic institutions than have experienced improvement, the longest such decline in a half-century....

Jan 3 , 2026

When Language Betrays the Lives It Describes

The backlash sparked by a TikTok clip featuring “Tigi Perspective”, a self-styled social critic known for her conservative takes on gender and family, has reignited long-buried cultural tensions....

Dec 27 , 2025

AI Learns the Lyrics But Misses the Meaning

While trying to work at a café the other day, I experienced the real war on Christmas. Hoping for the familiar hum of conversation and music, I was surprised upon entering that no one was talking. St...

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Commentaries | Jul 31,2026

The Rains May Fail, Policy Dare Not

Weldu Yiheysh has not read the Pacific temperature charts. He does not need to. In Shibta...

Editorial | Jul 31 , 2026

SMALL-NOTES SQUEEZE WORN, TORN, NEVER RETURNED

For Hirut Ayalew, a small shop owner around Ferensay Legasiyon, the shortage of usable sma...

Featured | Aug 1 , 2026 . By BIZUAYEHU ABIY

Tax Bills Outrun the Metre, Stalling Taxi-hailing Drivers

Elbeletel Tilahun was among the ride-hailing drivers startled by this year's tax assessmen...

Agenda | Aug 1 , 2026 . By BEZAWIT HULUAGER

Right-sizing Tests Addis Abeba University’s Promise for Autonomy

Addis Abeba University set out to win its institutional autonomy. Two years in, that freed...

Fortune News | Aug 1 , 2026 . By NAHOM AYELE