This Saturday, Ethiopia celebrates Christmas and many Ethiopian communities around the world will have parties. In my city, the party will take place at the Ambridge center from 5 to 9 PM. There will be music, dance, games, performances, food, and the most important part of all, my children will dance on stage! [...]

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Hottest as in sweaty hot! Yep, the day was a scorcher. We don’t have many hot days in Portland, specially by this time of the year, but I think the summer wanted to say goodbye with full force and chose the Ethiopian New Year to display all [...]

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Before it’s too late, I wanted to remind all of you who live in the Portland area (Oregon, USA) that between February and March 2010, the 20th Cascade Festival of African Films will take place in our city. This year the Festival will show 23 films and the opening night is [...]

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