I know there are a lot of people that follow this blog from Europe, so I wanted to mention an event that will take place next week in Italy. In the city of Milan, the 20th Festival of African Cinema will run from March 15th to March 21st. There is a long [...]

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Many times at home we talk about how great it would be to spend some time in Ethiopia with the children so they can learn the Amharic language and have a chance to immerse in their native culture. It’s almost impossible now to do that. Work, school, money and everyday life keep us [...]

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44 pounds, twice a day. That’s what many Ethiopian women have to carry on their backs during most of their lives to have clean water. “Clean water” is more a wish than a fact, since this water comes from hand dug wells and it is untreated and [...]

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I just realized that I’ve been talking about injera for a while, but never posted anything about the main ingredient, teff flour, or more precisely about the grain teff. Teff (ጤፍ ) or “Eragrostis tef” is an ancient grass that originated between 4000 BC to 1000 [...]

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