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Ethiopian intellectual Taddesse Tamrat, the pre-eminent historian of medieval Ethiopia, died Tuesday in a hospital in Chicago, where he was being treated for acute sickness. He was 78. The former professor of History at Addis Ababa University, Professor Taddesse was described as a man of boundless curiosity, and monumental productivity. He is the author of [...]
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My article "Ethiopia's love affair with coffee" is published today in Mail and Guardian's Voices of Africa.Check it out and let me know what you think. Addis Ababa may be the heart of Ethiopia, but coffee is its lifeline. The coffee-drinking ceremony is a daily ritual on the streets and in homes, and it trumps [...]
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Ethiopian activist Bogaletch Gebre has won an international prize for her campaign to eradicate female genital mutilation (FGM). Bogaletch was awarded the King Baudouin Prize in Belgium for confronting "culturally entrenched taboo subjects", the selection committee said. She helped reduce cases of FGM from 100% of newborn girls to less than 3% in parts of [...]
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At least ten men drowned after the boat they were traveling capsized in Lake Tana, the largest lake in Ethiopia, Monday evening. The crowded boat went down about a mile off from Baher Dar, while heading to the village of Gorgora, when waves started coming over the stern of the boat.The villagers were returning after [...]
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Poetry will have a place at the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Organization of African Unity, the precursor to today's African Union. Award-winning Ethiopian-British performance poet and playwright Lemn Sissay is in town and he will be performing at different venues in Addis Ababa for the for the celebration of the Golden Jubilee. [...]
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Ethiopian security forces arrested two sons of prominent opposition figure and internet activist Assegid Gebre Selassie in the northern town of Mekele, hauling them off to a remote location without showing a warrant, he told local magazine. "My two sons are incarcerated at different prisons, one at illegal solitary confinement called 06, which is not [...]
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A panel discussion to explore Emperor Haile Selassie's role and Ethiopia's contribution to the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), a precursor to the AU, was abruptly cancelled. The panel, planned to quell a controversy over a lack of credit by the ruling party for the Emperor, was to have been held at [...]
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Patriarch Abune Mathias has officially joined the microblogging website Twitter, securing the account @EOTCPatriarch. His first tweet dated on March 10 says, Good morning from Addis Ababa! My brethren, pray for the unity of our Holy Orthodox Church and each other as we enter the Great Holy Lent. The Patriarch's desire to connect with citizens [...]
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Ethiopian police in Addis Ababa questioned an editor for several hours yesterday in connection with a story published in October about the widow of the late Ethiopian leader Meles Zenawi, according to news reports. Officers in the Ethiopian Federal Police Crime Investigation Department interrogated Ferew Abebe, the former editor-in-chief of the private Amharic-language weekly Sendek, [...]
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A new book chronicling the use of photography as communication and propaganda medium in Emperor Menelik II's palace is set to launch next week here in Addis Ababa. The book entirely written in French and entitled, 'Le Roi des rois et la photographie. Politique de l'image et pouvoir royal en Ethiopie sous le règne de [...]
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