Enkutatash Celebrations for 2017 so far…
Ethiopian Community of Maryland, US: Ethiopian Day Festival, September 3rd, 2017, 2 to 9 PM, Civic Center Plaza, Silver Springs, Maryland
Ethiopian Community Of Dallas, Texas, US: Ethiopia Day 2017, September 2-3, 2017 – Plano Centre, E Spring Creek Pkwy, Plano TX, US [...]

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I follow Brazilian artist Kiusam de Oliveira on Facebook, and she posted a link to an artist supply shop in Brazil that sells a pack of crayons to paint different skin tones. I immediately searched if there was anything similar in the US and I found this in [...]

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I’m breaking the silence to draw attention to a very special fundraising campaign. Many fans of Ethiopia know the significance of Fendika, and how important it is to save this oasis of Ethiopian culture in a city that is drastically changing.
I know that governments of developing countries [...]

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I often listen to the Canadian radio program Q with Jian Ghomeshi and this particular episode is very enlightening about how stereotypes about Africa continue to propagate in the western world. Neelika Jayawardane, a professor of post-colonial literature at Oswego State University of NY, discusses how usually books about Africa carry [...]

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