By MONICA KAYOMBO Zambia Daily Mail Monica Kayombo (right) with Memory Chipango, a travel agent at Voyagers Travel and Tours pose for a photo at the African Union Building in Addis Abba. PREPARATIONS for my second visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, after my first in 2010, started like any other, but little did I know
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DW A film by Kilian Schützeatch the report A German conservation group is compensating local farmers in Ethiopia’s Kafa region,whose lifestock is often seized by rare mountain lions. In return, the farmers are helping protect the big cats. Project goal: documenting and protecting the lions of Kafa (among the very few African lions not living
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BY Victoria Fleischer PBS News Hour Dinaw Mengestu talks about his new novel “All Our Names,” which narrates the story of a young black man who comes of age in post-colonial Africa and the young white woman who meets and falls in love with him in a small Midwest American town. Mengestu spoke to chief
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The Black Lions Organization With misleading information constantly conveyed to the public through mainstream media, many individuals have adopted a misconstrued perception of what Africa (namely, Ethiopia) truly is like. Meraf Berhanu, a young Ethiopian American from Dallas, Texas, took it upon herself to capture the true essence of Ethiopian life and culture by traveling
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BUAPP Liyou Libsekal Liyou Libsekal, an Ethiopian poet who lives in Addis Ababa, has won the 2014 Brunel University African Poetry Prize (BUAPP). The judges, including prize founder and Reader in Creative Writing at Brunel Dr Bernardine Evaristo, praised Liyou’s poetry for its accomplished modulation between the concrete and the abstract; her impressive use of
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The Next Women Andrea Kolb of The Next Women meets Tigist and Haimanot Damtew from Ethiopia, founders of jewelry design company T&H Designs, who were trained in the trade by the NGO Gemini Trust. Andrea herself is the founder of social fashion brand ABURY, one of the companies through which pieces of jewelry from T&H Designs are sold.
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IPS By James Jeffrey DEBRE LIBANOS, Ethiopia, May 9 2014 (IPS) - It is generally agreed that the origin of parchment making found in Ethiopia today likely lies with Christian monks who braved crossing the Red Sea around the 4th century and brought the bible with them. Methods exist in Ethiopia that have not been used in
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By Amy Watkins loughboroughecho.net Hayley Fern, who works as a community arts development co-ordinator at Rawlins Academy in Quorn, was asked to visit a school in Gondar by David Dipple, a teacher in Barrow-upon-Soar, after she painted a mural in his classroom. Hayley Fern is pictured with some of the children on her visit to Gondar. A
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Fusion. Net By ELIZABETH MURRAY @elizabthmurray A group of young skateboarders in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, want to bring skateboarding to the rest of their country through their group called Ethiopia Skate. Ethiopia Skate | Skateboard Journey: http://youtu.be/VOBNvO_eD8Y In this video, made…
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IndiWire I recall when we first reported on this initiative, in 2012. Three filmmakers were selected that inaugural year: Henok Mebratu, Olisarali Olibui Tongolu and Yidnekachew Shumete, whose feature film Nishan, screened Stateside at both the Pan African Film Festival…
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