There are many artists out there that are part of the Ethiopian diaspora. Some of them have strong influences from the Ethiopian culture and others took a different and more personal path but never forgot about their roots. Some of these artists left Ethiopia on their own to pursue their artistic careers, and others were [...]

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I have a long list of books to read this summer and I’ll try at least to read half of them now that the pressure of school days are over. I’ve started with the book by Lori Tharps, Kinky Gazpacho: Life, Love & Spain. Lori Tharps has [...]

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I’ve just learned that Ethiopian artist Mickaël Bethe-Selassie who I wrote about before, has a new exhibition coming up in the Netherlands on May 30th. I love his work and after writing about him he was so kind to invite me to his studio in Paris. We planned on going there [...]

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Not long ago I posted the news about a boat carrying African immigrants, most of them Ethiopians, that capsized off the Yemen coast with the tragic result of all of them dying. Well, something similar happened again but this time it could have been prevented, however nobody [...]

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