I’ve read many, many blogs commenting the disturbing news about the adoptive mother of a Russian child that decided to return the boy to his native country because “she not longer wanted to parent him”.  I’m not going to write about this special case, but about how this is probably the result of a broken [...]

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We always talk about how big are the challenges for poor nations like Ethiopia and how we can help people living there, since the problems they have to overcome are so huge. From health to food, water to schools, where do we begin? Is sending money the solution? Sometimes the best solutions to big problems [...]

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And here comes the hair thing… again. Some months have passed since I wrote the last post about hair and I consider that now I have much more experience to talk about it. Has my opinion changed? Well, no really. Actually as time goes by, I believe more [...]

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Most of us that are related in one way or another to Ethiopia and its culture already know the term habesha ( ሐበሻ ) or abesha, and maybe have used it more than once. It is frequently used to refer to Ethiopians and Eritreans. There is some contradiction on where it [...]

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