By Seifudein Adem, Visiting Professor at the Institute for Advanced Research and Education, Doshisha University, Kyoto ...
“We are the children of failed revolutionaries,” a friend ruefully concluded about our families’ paths from Ethiopia to the United States. The Ethiopian revolution, which quickly devolved to civil war ...
The beginning of a new year is a time where people reflect on the past and look forward to what's next. In the African countries of Ethiopia and Eritrea, the New Year's celebration is called ...
An Emperor murdered. Famine used as a weapon. Tanks storming a dictator's palace. And today, a civil war that threatens to tear the country of 109 million people apart. For the past half century, the ...
This is a story about fascists and freedom fighters, and emperors and common people. Maaza Mengiste’s “The Shadow King” is a masterpiece. Here’s why. In 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia. Though a member ...
Introduction: Images of the Country and its History -- The Coming of Photography -- I. Historic Personalities: from Tewodros to Haile Sellassie -- II. Historic Towns: North, South, East and West -- ...
Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam was recently officially inaugurated after 14 years and US$5 billion worth of project work.
In this 2009 file photo, former fashion model Yeharerwerk Gashaw speaks on the importance of education before Denton's "5K Education 4 Everyone" benefit run, which raises scholarship money for The ...
Sahle-Work Zewde made history Thursday by becoming the first female head of state in modern Ethiopia. The experienced diplomat was elected unanimously by Ethiopia’s Federal Parliamentary Assembly and ...