Category: Ethiopia Book Extracts

• Ethiopian Woven Wisdom

  

  Can Ethiopia’s cotton cloth be likened to her people? Refined yet tough? In Bahir Dar, on the shores of Lake Tana at the source of the Blue Nile, I witnessed a fusion of dance and spinning. A slender lady did Eskista shoulder dance while walking in a deep squat in a circle, smoothly without bouncing…

  Ianet Bastyan

  August 19, 2022

  Ethiopia Book Extracts, Ethiopia Deserves Peace, Ethiopia’s Innovations and Culture

  Ethiopian silk cultivation, Ethiopian textiles, Ethiopian weaving and embroidery, Kombolcha Textile Factory destruction by TPLF, Textile worker conditions, Traditional yagerlibs clothing

• HR6600 Against Ethiopia

  

  The HR6600 bill introduced in April 2022 by the US attacked Ethiopians. It would have stopped Ethiopian diaspora in the US from easily sending so much as $1 to a hungry mother in Ethiopia – AFTER they had paid US tax. Inside Ethiopia, enterprises would not have been able to import medicine or industrial supplies…

  Ianet Bastyan

  July 4, 2022

  Ethiopia Book Extracts, Ethiopia Deserves Peace

  Black lives matter, Ethiopia book extracts, Ethiopian UN Peacekeeper service in the Korean War, HR6600 against Ethiopia

• “Lucy’s People” Book Extracts

  

  You would know about the 2003 US invasion of Iraq and the fate of the museum collection in Baghdad. Since November 2020, the same has happened to Jewish monasteries and museums in Ethiopia. This month, there were auctions abroad for Ethiopian treasures. Coincidence?

  Ianet Bastyan

  March 20, 2022

  Ethiopia Book Extracts

  Emperor Tewodros II and resistance to colonisation and cultural theft, Ethiopia book extracts, Russian communism in Ethiopia, Traditional physicians