Capital FM BY SUSAN WONG Long before Dave Asprey, the creator of Bulletproof Coffee, popularized adding butter to coffee, Ethiopians have been making creamy cups of the beverage since as early as the ninth century. Although the Ethiopian legend of Kaldi and his goats discovering coffee beans as a stimulant and as a beverage on the
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Mail & Guardian Africa CHRISTINE MUNGAI Ethiopia, Eritrea, Rwanda, Somalia, Egypt, Ghana tend to top list of nations with most beautiful women. It is all about history and geography, really Profile of Ethiopian beauty modelled by Gete Berhe (photo Jhennelle Townsend/flickr). BELOW Miss Ghana 2012 Carranzer Naa Okailey Shooter, then Cleopatra and Mark Antony (
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Time Ashley Ross@ashbrookeross Gates has said he’ll match $100,000 if Green can raise it Author John Green has gotten a lot of attention for his heart-wrenching novel The Fault in Our Stars, the bestselling young-adult-novel-turned-blockbuster-movie about two young cancer patients who meet in a support group. But most fans who only know of Green for this
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(CNN) — You’d expect a conversation with Mulatu Astake to be about music. He is, after all, the father of a musical genre: Ethio-jazz. But when he talks about the art form, he tends to focus on its scientific merits. “When you start talking about jazz, they’re usually telling us that Africans contributed to the
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The Guardian By Sean O’Hagan From the African Choir posing like Vogue models to an Abyssinian prince adopted by an explorer, a new exhibition spotlights the first black people ever photographed in Britain Discovered … Member of the African Choir, London Stereoscopic Company, 1891. Photograph: Courtesy of © Hulton Archive/Getty Images The African Choir were
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The Guardian By Sean O’Hagan From the African Choir posing like Vogue models to an Abyssinian prince adopted by an explorer, a new exhibition spotlights the first black people ever photographed in Britain Discovered … Member of the African Choir, London Stereoscopic Company, 1891. Photograph: Courtesy of © Hulton Archive/Getty Images The African Choir were
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BBC Business and art are becoming increasingly entwined in the Ethiopian capital, but journalist James Jeffrey asks if this has come at a cost to creativity and true artistic experimentation. Until recently the buying and selling of modern and contemporary art in Ethiopia was all but non-existent. The entrance to Makush Art Gallery & Restaurant
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Lonely Planet Encounter rare wolves, hyenas, beautiful birds and cheeky monkeys in the untouched wilds of Ethiopia, says Lonely Planet editor Helen Elfer It’s a long drive from Addis Ababa to Bale Mountains National Park. Long, but absolutely glorious – past donkeys, sunny fields, hills, plateaus, red dirt paths and traditional circular houses painted in upbeat shades
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Mail & Guardian By Samantha Spooner Urban hyenas, unique scripts and rasta roots are just some of them… The beauty of Ethiopian women is a much-discussed subject Today Ethiopia is ringing in the New Year, but in this case it’s 2007. This is because Ethiopia follows the Julian calendar, roughly seven years behind the Gregorian,
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Mail & Guardian By Samantha Spooner Urban hyenas, unique scripts and rasta roots are just some of them… The beauty of Ethiopian women is a much-discussed subject Today Ethiopia is ringing in the New Year, but in this case it’s 2007. This is because Ethiopia follows the Julian calendar, roughly seven years behind the Gregorian,
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