Category: Ethiopia Book Extracts
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Oromo and Amhara Harmony
We city youth (mostly Amhara) were given a huge welcome by traditional Oromo people in the Muger region in southern Ethiopia. It was enough to want to stay there forever.
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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…
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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…
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“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 Orthodox monasteries and museums in Ethiopia. This month, there were auctions abroad for Ethiopian treasures. Coincidence?