how many of us are annoyed by redundent missed calls made to our phone or had a habit of doing so to request a call back ? Andrew Heavens of Reuters who had been based in Addis Ababa reflects on the missed call culture in Africa in his article “phone credit low? africans go for [...]
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“A thousand years from now, when the Ethiopians gather to celebrate the fourth millennium they shall say the eve of the third millennium was the beginning of the Ethiopian renaissance.” This is an extract from Prime Minister Meles Zenawi’s speech addressed on the eve of the Ethiopian millennium at the big 10 mil. Dollar concert hall [...]
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The much-hyped up new album of teddy Afro has been released on Friday. Surprisingly the cassette was being sold at about 10:00 PM by street vendors. Everyone was so eager to reach home and push the play button of ones tape recorder to hear the new beats of the popular contemporary music star only to [...]
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Stretching his artistic craftsmanship Bewketu Seyoum is going to come up with a new poetry anthology “Yesat Dar Hasaboch” (Fire side Ideas) on September. It is to be remembered that he has released a new novel “Enkilfina Edime “(Sleep and Age) recently. The anthology contains about fifty poems. Bewketu said that the title “Yesat Dar [...]
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when browsing through some blogs I came across this photo posted on yehassab sanduq blog. it was one of the most passionate and lively photos i have ever seen.
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Tewodros Taddesse will be paid 1.25 million Birr for the concerts he is going to present in Addis and other regional cities by Sol promotion, organizer of the event. He is going to release a single entitled “Metahu”(I Came ). In a related news, Tewordos kassahun’s concert scheduled to be held at the Ghion Hotel [...]
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