I finally had the chance to watch the movie Teza at the Portland Festival of African Films this past weekend. Not only that, but I also stayed for the Q&A with the director, Haile Gerima, right after the movie. This event took place at the Historical Hollywood Theater in Portland, OR. [...]

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”Sleep, sleep negrito  That your mama is in the fields  Negrito She’s going to bring quails for you She’s going to bring lots of things for you She’s going to bring pork meat for you [...]

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Feromsa started preschool this year, and we had to choose a private one since there are no public preschools. Officially his education will start next year when he enters kindergarten at five years of age. How we chose a preschool? Well, convenience really… It needed to be close to home and not [...]

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A while ago when I was reading the book Held at a distance - a rediscovery of Ethiopia by Rebecca Haile, every phrase I read reminded me of Argentina. If I had read it without knowing it was about Ethiopia, without the geographic and historic references, I could have thought it was a book about [...]

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