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May 23 , 2020

The Fading Sounds of Indigenous Music from the Addis Music Scene

Before the global lockdown, the rhythmic tunes of bands playing indigenously-inspired music would pulsate through the air at Fendika Cultural Centre, an azmari betlocated in the very heart of Kazanchi...

May 9 , 2020

Business As Usual in the Unusual Time of COVID-19

Next week, it will have been two months since my partner and I have self-isolated and closed our business waiting for the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) storm to pass. My family and friends are all on t...

May 1 , 2020

Take Care for the Health Professionals

On the Friday before last, I was at home when I heard loud music coming from the house next door. I am new to the neighbourhood, so I had reservations about going outside to inquire, but it was clearl...

Apr 25 , 2020

Home is Not Always Safe, Especially for Women

As the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has spread across the world, governments have been imposing or at least advising preventive measures to fight the spread of the virus. Citizens have been a...

Apr 17 , 2020

Divided We Fall, Together It's Possible to Make It

Language, studied properly, helps expose much of what is wrong with our world. Take the term “Third World” for instance. It was originally coined by Alfred Sauvy, a French historian, in the mid...

Apr 11 , 2020

The Bad, the Ugly of Society in Crisis

Several years ago, a friend explained the negative connotation of the word ferenji, a slang term used to refer to white people. I dismissed his sentiment in my mind even as I was trying to listen to h...

Apr 4 , 2020

Prevalence of Creativity, Near Demise of Creative Spaces

One of the unintended consequences of the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has been the closure of virtually every establishment that depends on people gathering in large numbers around a limited...

Mar 28 , 2020

Brace for Cultural, Socioeconomic Adjustment

The world is almost at a standstill as it grapples with an impending tragedy. What started out as the spread of an unknown respiratory virus in a Chinese city most of us had never heard of before has...

Mar 21 , 2020

Survival of the Considerate

It may have taken some time, but the global pandemic of the Coronavirus disease has reached Ethiopia. Unsettling feelings of panic are just beginning to hit home. As stated in the weeks before the...

Mar 14 , 2020

As Zoos Proliferate, Wildlife Heritage Suffers

The visit I made to the Addis Abeba Zoo, aka Anbessa Gebi, in Amist Kilo as a child is one of the most memorable events of my life. It was meant as a treat from my uncle to my sister and me. But it di...

Mar 7 , 2020

We Could Learn from Caleb’s Sense of Duty

I no longer want to celebrate holidays such as Adwa Victory, which honours values we no longer stand for, as we continue to fail young people. Until we can embody the sense of justice, independence,...

Feb 29 , 2020

Choice, Custom: Not Mutually Exclusive

I am lucky enough to have grown up in a happy home, but, more importantly, in a household that did not think divorce was unimaginable. I was taught that if one is in a miserable relationship, there is...

Feb 22 , 2020

Working, Trying, Expecting in Ethiopia: But Barely Succeeding

I refreshed my Facebook page over and over again, hoping it would work last Tuesday night. There was no internet, and my phone was unable to make any calls. I realised later that there was an interne...

Feb 15 , 2020

The Women in the Household

Self-help books will have us believe that time management is one of the major factors for success. If this is the case, then it is a tragedy for many Ethiopian girls and women in households. The less...

Feb 8 , 2020

Corona's Global Pandemic of Panic

I was away for months in the rural parts of Ethiopia before I returned to Addis Abeba a year ago. What I found on the streets of Addis shocked me. Syrian refugees had flooded the streets and mothe...

Feb 1 , 2020

Ethiopia : A Home with Hope

My neighbour was in a drunken state when he proclaimed “miracles” about Ethiopia that bordered on the non-sensical. “Ethiopia is the beginning and the end,” he repeated at the end of his ra...

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When Parliament takes up the appropriation bill, federal legislators will receive a docume...

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Customers settle into a carefully curated space of dark wood, black accents, muted green f...

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For Consumers in Addis Abeba, Even Thrift Becomes Expensive

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AG MESERET MAKES AUDIT MISMATCH HARD TO DEFEND

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Fortune News | Jun 21 , 2026 . By NAHOM AYELE