Arts & Culture

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

Disney has put a Queen of Sheba a one hour scripted drama series is in development. Sheba, is also exec co produced by actress-writer-producer Azie Tesfai who came up with the idea (Tesfai was born and raised in California, the daughter of Eritrean  immigrants who grew up in Ethiopia). The drama explores the rise to

By Edom Belete Habtegebriel Clouds are water droplets that have evaporated and float in the sky until they precipitate, falling as rain to the ground. But nowhere does the water fall on the place it started from. There is a constant shift. Not many, aside from those who study clouds, pay that much attention to

Kassmasse (Fikru Semma), an Ethiopian artist, took home the award for Best East African Artist at the 2022 All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA). The annual awards ceremony, which was created in 2013 by the International Committee of the All Africa Music Awards (AFRIMA) in partnership with the African Union (AU), honors outstanding achievement in the