Andrew DeCort is an American scholar and researcher who lives and works in Ethiopia. He is the author of Bonhoeffer’s New Beginning: Ethics after Devastation and director of the Institute for Faith and Flourishing (iccgood.org). He has served as lecturer in ethics…
Frédéric Garnier, 72, is a retired French dentist who lives in the suburbs of Paris, Chantilly-Gouvieux. He spent the early parts of his life in the eastern town of Ethiopia, Dire Dawa, where his father was working for the Djibouti-Addis…
Country Roads (growing up, exposures, decisions, and reflections) By Aklillu Kidanu Wolde Giorgis 283pp, Self-published …Odysseus sighting his island after years of wandering; the return, the return, the great magic of the return. -Milan Kundera, Ignorance Aklilu Kidanu’s “Country Roads”…
The nation paid its respects to the man was Ethiopia’s president for more than a decade and a respected environmental activist, Girma Wolde-Ghiorgis, who died on Saturday, during a state funeral Dec. 19 at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis…
Peter Gill, in his book, Ethiopia and Foreigners: Ethiopia since the Live Aid (Oxford University Press, 2010), discussing the political chaos that followed in the wake of the 2005 election, which, among other things, led to the fragmentation of a…
Maria Thomas, author (“African Visas” and “Come to Africa and save your Marriage”) and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, Ethiopia, probably said it best: “If you’ve ever lived in Ethiopia, you never really put it behind you. You follow the…
Thirty years ago on July 29, the poet and playwright, Mengistu Lemma, who Richard Pankhurst considered the Bernard Shaw of Ethiopia, died at the age of 65. Mengistu made a remarkable impact on the development of Ethiopian literature with his…
Mahmoud Ahmed is one of Ethiopia’s greatest performers, whose career started in the country’s ‘Golden Age’ in the ’60s and ’70s when a thriving indigenous jazz and funk scene swept the nation. Since his first trip abroad in 1994, he…
Gérard Prunier is a writer and researcher on socio-political issues, specialising in the Horn of Africa on which he has published numerous articles and books. Born in Paris and studied both in France and in the US, Prunier received a…
Ethiopia is at a crossroads as the nation swears in a new Prime Minister in a move to reclaim stability after three years of political crisis. There is realization among political leaders, opposition members and the society at large only…
