In the opening pages of “Oromo Witness,” author Abdul Dire drives from engineering classes at the University of Minnesota to a restaurant on Minneapolis’ Lake Street to pick up his uncle, Hangasu Wako ...
THE STAIRS rise elegantly, twisting towards the heavens. At the top is the small room where Emperor Menelik II prayed for God’s blessing as he dramatically enlarged Ethiopia’s territory in the last ...
Relatives embrace after meeting at Asmara International Airport, after one arrived Wednesday aboard the Ethiopian Airlines ET314 flight in Asmara, Eritrea. (Tiksa Negeri/Reuters). Analysis by Kim Yi ...
Leaders writing books is not an unusual phenomenon in history, but in modern authoritarian contexts, the act of publishing a political philosophy often ...
In the 4th century A.D., Ethiopia became the world’s second Christian nation, preceded only by Armenia. Though its historicity is questionable, the 14th-century Kebra Nagast tied Prince Ermias Sahle ...
T he silencing of the guns in Tigray, a northern region of Ethiopia in which hundreds of thousands of people may have died in ...
Joseph travels to Northern Ethiopia to uncover its ancient history. Joseph travels Northern Ethiopia from the monasteries of Lake Tana to the castles of King Fasiladas in Gondar and the rock-hewn ...
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