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VIDEO: Coffee Crisis

June 2003 Coffee farmers of Ethiopia are facing destitution. The collapse in world coffee prices means that prices no longer even cover growing costs. Farmers in Ethiopia are now lucky to make $10 a year. Prices have fallen 70% in the past four years and since the collapse of the International Coffee [...]

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VIDEO: RE-presenting Africans from an African perspective with agency, attitude and mission

Check out this preview from Stocktown displaying “another Africa” and africans with not only attitude and agency but with a mission!

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ARTICAL: Ethiopia: Minallesh Terra – Leftovers of World’s Largest Open-Air Market

Whether or not Merkato still has any claim to being the largest open-air market in Africa is debatable. If one goes to Merkato today, they will more likely see big, new shopping malls as well as demolished sections of open-air stalls awaiting their own modern buildings.

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ARTICAL: The 50 best African artists (according to the The Independent)

Independent.co.uk THE 50 BEST AFRICAN ARTISTS OGA STEVE ABAH, PLAYWRIGHT (Nigeria) Oga Steve Abah is a tireless, prolific theatre activist whose work focuses on creating dramas based on the everyday lives of ordinary people: poor, powerless, without a channel for learning to cope with the pressures of contemporary life. In his work, [...]

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ARTICAL: Mulatu Astatke? Watch a Video by Ethiopia’s Coolest Musician and You’ll Never Forget Him

Mulatu Astatke is the man in charge of all of it. He writes the music, arranges it, and plays piano, organ, vibes and percussion. Although the Golden Years of this Ethiopian music were ancient history -- from 1968 to 1974 -- Astatke is still a major figure in Ethiopian music, regularly playing and teaching.

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Ethiopia: Ethnic Federalism and Its Discontents

The Ethiopian Peoples’ Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), led by its chairman and prime minister, Meles Zenawi, has radically reformed Ethiopia’s political system. The regime transformed the hitherto centralised state into the Federal Democratic Republic and also redefined citizenship, politics and identity on ethnic grounds. The intent was to create a [...]

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FILM: Motherland

Motherland (Enat Hager) is a bold, epic journey through Africa with a authentic African voice. Fusing history, culture, politics, and contemporary issues, Motherland sweeps across Africa to tell a new story of a dynamic continent. From the glory and majesty of Africa’s past through its complex and present history. Motherland looks unflinchingly toward a positive [...]

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BOOK RELEASE: Beneath the Lion´s gaze by MAAZA MENGISTE

An epic tale of a father and two sons, of betrayals and loyalties, of a family unraveling in the wake of Ethiopia’s revolution. This memorable heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution.  Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the [...]

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VIDEO: Two contemporary ways of making Ingera in USA!

Injera- The Self-Rising Flour Step Ingera factory in D.C.

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“Mezeker Means To Remember” Mike Ellis (Def Poetry)

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MOVIE: Sele Feker

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MOVIE: Desert Flower – Liya Kebede’s Upcoming Movie

More Pictures of Liya Movie Mysterious, proud, beautiful, as the young Somalierin Waris Dirie (Liya Kebede) in a London fast-food restaurant by star photographer Terry Donaldson (Timothy Spall) is detected, celebrating the international fashion world inspired the birth of a new top models. But behind the glamorous facade hides a deeply moving destiny. Born in [...]

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VIDEO: Mixing ethiopian beats to arabic lyrics

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Eritrean Scandinavian Festival in Stockholm – the can do people

Fellow Eritreans and friends of Eritrea ! Once again the Eritrean National Holidays Organizing Committee in Stockholm – Sweden or more known as Awahahadit Shimagele Hagerawi Beealat is proud to present the annual Eritrean Festival. It will take place at Eggeby Gård located on the field between Rinkeby-Tensta and Husby. This year the festival will [...]

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The Penguin Prize for African Writing

Penguin Books is pleased to announce today a new literary award for writers from the African continent. The Penguin Prize for African Writing has two categories: one each for a previously unpublished full-length work of adult fiction and non-fiction. The prize in each category will be R50 000 and a publishing contract with Penguin Books [...]

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