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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Recently we watched the documentary movie Adopted that as the title implies, talks about adopted people. The film documents two different stories. The first one is the adoption of a Korean woman by a white couple about 30 years ago and the second one is the adoption of a Chinese girl [...]

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During the Cascade Festival of African Films, I went to see the movie Sankofa but I didn’t have time to write my review until now. This is one of the classics. It’s a movie about slavery, but don’t expect anything Hollywood style. The Ethiopian director, Halie Gerima has a very personal way [...]

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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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