Lalibela Cross with Bete Mariam church in the background. Painting by Fikru Helebo. May 2021.

Sintayehu Tilahun singing Dereben accompanied by Ras Band. I love the song's fast beat and the way he goes back and forth between Hadiy...

Syria? Iran? Ukraine? Context from the third presidential debate between Obama and Romney: PRESIDENT OBAMA: Governor Romney, I...

We were delighted to witness this Ethiopian wolf successfully hunt its meal on our trip to the Bale Mountains National Park in June of 2...

Thomas Sowell is one of my favorite opinion writers. In his latest column ( A Challenge to Our Beliefs ) he elucidates on the relationshi...

"If you like your health care plan, you'll be able to keep your health care plan, period . No one will take it away, no matter wha...

We really enjoyed watching Cheick Hamala and his band play at Reston Town Center a few weeks ago. They were great! The video clip below per...

The idea of creating new cities that are unencumbered by the problems of the host countries where they are located has fascinated me ever s...

"Almost all of the more than 1,000 African languages spoken today belong to just four families -- Afroasiatic, Niger-Kordofanian, Nilo...

A moving and informative interview. Please take your time to watch the whole interview.

The Chinese are arguably Sub-Saharan Africa's biggest trading partner . They are Ethiopia's, too. I have no problem with that. But ...

The passage below is from a 2009 interview of Claude M. Steele conducted by Henry Louis Gates about the effects of "stereotype threat...

This is an interview from 2008.

A Louisiana Satate Senator explains why he switched his party affiliation to the Republican party.

The authorities in Ethiopia allowed an opposition protest  to take place in Addis Ababa yesterday. Perhaps this is the first legal protest ...

This cartoon by Jerry Holbert cleverly captures the scandals that are engulfing the Obama Administration. Here are some good reads on each...

I had seen pictures of Konso terracing  before, but never a video documentary on it. There is a lot other people can learn from the Konso a...

Lelisa Desisa Of Ethiopia Wins Boston Marathon Men's Race

It is truly a sad moment in human history that we are forced to debate what marriage is, but here we are. This paper from the Heritage Foun...