Arts & Culture

BY SALOME KASSA “ … a beautiful story of resilience and strength” At the height of Mussolini’s fascist invasion of Ethiopia in the 1930s, a feisty thirteen-year-old village girl unknowingly turns her life upside down. The story takes the reader on a mesmerizing roller coaster. Fanaye’s strong will and determination throws her into the path […]

As the Ethiopian sun shakes off the last whispers of the somber rainy season known as “Kiremt,” the country awakens to a time of vibrant celebrations. This joyous transition from the grey of the rains to the golden warmth of summer is a time for giving thanks and celebrating life in Ethiopia’s cultural tapestry. Imagine

Kirubel Melke is a unique and remarkable artist with a degree in Fine Arts from the University of Addis Ababa. He is known for his talent and style which creatively combines his passion for art with his fascination for textiles. Inspired by his mother’s work at a garment factory and using fabric waste that she

A unique exhibition focussing on the Heritage of Ethiopia, has taken place in the Addis Ababa Museum compound. The Addis Ababa Culture, Art and Tourism Bureau celebrated its 4th annual heritage day by organizing this unique heritage exhibition. National heritage can be found in eleven sub cities; art, religious, private and association museum exhibits were

Author Mihret Sibhat was born and raised in a small town in western Ethiopia before moving to California when she was seventeen. A graduate of California State University, Northridge, and the University of Minnesota’s MFA program, she was a 2019 A Public Space Fellow and a 2019 Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative grantee. Her

The much beloved Ethiopian nun, classical pianist, violinist and composer has died at 99. She spent the last 40 years living in an Ethiopian monastery in Jerusalem, following her mother’s death in 1984 when Emahoy and her family found themselves targeted as aristocrats and had to flee the country. Born in Addis Ababa and named

What can’t you find in Merkato, the open-air market near Piazza that is a city unto itself? A new children’s book, Spaced, follows the young Fekadu, a boy with his head in the clouds, as he finds an old motorcycle helmet and remakes it into a spacesuit, ready for a flight to the moon. While

Gudi fecha ጉዲፈቻ is originally a practice indigenous to the Oromo culture, which allows ‘outsiders’ and children to integrate and be fully accepted in the social order. Beyond just being tolerated into the society, the newcomers are to be treated really well, like welcomed guests into a warm community. The local adoptions are open, meaning