Entertainment & Arts

Beyond the Map: Reimagining African Cities through Art

A map is usually something we use to find our way. It tells us...

Addis Gessesse, Visionary Who Elevated Ethiopian Music to the World Stage, Passes Away

The global music industry and the Ethiopian diaspora are in deep mourning following the sudden passing of visionary...

How Abel Tesfaye Became the World’s Highest-Paid Musician

For the global music industry, 2025 was a year of historic financial shifting. But for Ethiopians everywhere, it...

Disconnected by Design: Why Christopher Nolan and Haile Gerima Reject the Smartphone

In an era where the smartphone is treated as an extension of the human hand, choosing to step...

Federal High Court Grants Bail to Teddy Afro’s Assistant Manager and Co-Defendants

ADDIS ABABA — The Federal High Court issued its final ruling this afternoon regarding the bail requests of...
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President Obama 2021 Playlist Includes Teddy Afro’s Hit Song

As has become tradition, former President Barack Obama has submitted his own end-of-year listicle highlighting his favorite songs of the last 12 months. For the...

Art Contemplation in the Streets of Addis

"The precise role of the artist, then, is to illuminate that darkness, blaze roads through that vast forest, so that we will not, in...

Achare Shoe to Produce the Late Hanna Mesfin’s Album

Hanna Mesfin (Honey Spice), a popular vocalist with four singles, ቀና ብየ ፣ አትጎትጉተኝ ፣ ዞማዪ እና ፍቅርን ተውልኝ, died last week in a...

Designer Mahlet Afework among the six finalists for Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge

  AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Tommy Hilfiger, which is owned by PVH Corp. , is pleased to announce the six finalists of the 2021 Tommy Hilfiger Fashion Frontier Challenge, who were carefully...

Haile Gerima On the Need For African Filmmakers to Reflect on a Continent That ‘Lost Its Mind’

We speak to the legendary director about the re-release of Sankofa and the trials of producing African cinema. When Haile Gerima's seminal work, Sankofa, first came out in 1993,...

Marcus Samuelson & Maya are naming the second baby they are expecting after Ethiopia.

Marcus Samuelsson and his wife Maya, who share son Zion together, revealed that they’re expecting their second baby in a sweet announcement on Instagram...
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