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Bottlebrush Craft Center: beautiful crafts produced by women with disabilities

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This craft center is run by women living with disabilities in Addis Ababa, supporting each other and their families through their beloved craft. All their crafts are handmade from natural materials. With every purchase of a beautiful and unique piece you will be supporting them 100%. Items produced on site include Waldorf style dolls, crocheted […]

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Ethiopian born artist “one of 100 most influential people of 2020”

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Abel Makkonen Tesfaye (born February 16, 1990).  He is the only child of Makkonen and Samra Tesfaye, who were Ethiopian immigrants to Canada in the late 1980s. Tesfaye was raised by his grandmother and mother after his parents split up. While living with his grandmother Tesfaye learned Amharic, which he also spoke with his mother

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Kuriftu in Entoto Park – A World-Class Visitor Experience

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The Entoto Project in the hills above Addis has been devised with great imagination and ingenuity. A canyon of beauty and lush greenery complete with pleasant hiking trails amidst the ancient Entoto forest. Entoto Natural Park offers visitors absolutely stunning views and comfortable  places for relaxation. Kuriftu in the heart of the park offers visitors

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Congratulations! Fendika Cultural Center receives The Prince Claus Award

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Fendika Cultural Center is a cultural hub and vibrant creative hotspot in the heart of Kassanches. Owned and run by dancer and choreographer Melaku Belay, it is a melting pot of traditional and contemporary cultural expression, where artists of all generations experiment with new forms and reinvigorate old forms in all artistic disciplines, from music

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The Desert Rose team ; innovative anthropologists

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Social Enterprise Desert Rose Consultancy is made up of  anthropologists and innovators who work together to merge cross-cultural aptitude with imaginative thinking to help companies and organisations better adapt their initiatives to the Horn of Africa. They use a vast set of experience working in Somali Region to translate anthropological insight and creativity into astute

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Ambassador Discusses with British Museum Official over Return of Ethiopia’s Treasures

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Ethiopia’s ambassador to British Teferi Melesse discussed with the Director of Victoria and Albert Museum, Dr. Tristram Hunt on how best to revitalize Ethiopia’s claim to the Maqdala treasures.  World-renowned Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), (alongside other UK national cultural collections), houses a number of priceless treasures seized by the British Army 152 years ago

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Ethiopian American artist named as “one of 100 most influential people of 2020”

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Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to an American teacher mother and Ethiopian Ethiopian college professor father. They fled the country in 1977 to escape political turmoil and moved to Michigan, for her father’s teaching position on economic geography at Michigan State University. She has been named as one of Time

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