Have you ever seen the sculptures of Ethiopian artist Mickaël Bethe-Selassié? If you haven’t you are up for a treat. As you can see in the image above, the atelier of this wonderful sculptor looks more like a playground than a work place. [...]

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I’ve been working for a while on a book for children. I wanted to write something for my two Ethiopian children, a book to show them where they come from, to be proud of their country and their heritage, and also as a starting point to discuss their culture and the adoption. [...]

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If any of you are of African descent or have been the parent of an African child for a while, you know how versatile African hair is. It’s extraordinary the things you can do with it. Thanks to its curly nature, African hair can be modeled, twisted, braided in almost any form you can imagine [...]

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We are quite different from the standard American family; so far I haven’t found any other family like ours. We are white parents, yes; but not white American parents, so we can’t identify with the regular white-American-person. For me, American culture is something I started to learn about 12 years ago, [...]

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