Continuing series I & series II; the third and final song picked …
The interest being on the song rather than the artist; these are songs which I personally deem greatest songs in modern Ethiopian music history.
I was trapped between two songs which I felt had so much importance culturally in the last 20 to 25 years. Go to any Ethiopian party and you are more likely to do one or two eskista songs. And there are a more than a few quintessential eskista songs. Picking one eskista song would be an insult to the many Ethiopian singers that have produced such amazing works that we party to and wed in. Continue reading ‘Crowning III’
Published by Nolawi February 5th, 2007 in Music, Podcast and Series.
Ethiopians in the Washington DC area are going to gather and watch the superbowl. Some are going to party and some are going to throw the party. Podcasted is a Superbowl party radio commercial, I don't know if this is for real or a joke, either way I am not sold, maybe there where not selling to me. Continue reading ‘Injera Superbowl’
Published by Nolawi February 2nd, 2007 in Podcast.
Selam Hiz’boche –back at you, once more to lecture about an alarming anxiety.
The Ethio-male, too often are being depicted as struggling to express themselves emotionally in appropriate ways, unable to think and feel at a deeper level, and sometimes not even good at ‘traditional male’ pursuits, including that of professionally and socially outside of the Ethiopian community.
You talk and talk and talk and finally we start believing it as true! They say that Ethio-males have hard time accepting change. Ethio-male still believes that he is in Ethiopia. Ethio-males didn’t integrate in the western society or have hard time doing so socially. Continue reading ‘Empowering Ethio-Males!’
Published by Wondata January 31st, 2007 in Advice.
What really happened to the Wueyete Taxi cab?
Its quaint the amount of influence economy plays a role in our daily life. Most of you would say duh, obviously; the more money you have the better you live.
Well I am not talking about the individual existence rather the amount of cultural & traditional influence the economy plays a role in. Continue reading ‘wueyete’
Published by Nolawi January 29th, 2007 in Current Issues.
I once heard filmmaker Haile Gerima speak:
You know we have so many stories, so so many stories to be told”
I couldn’t help but think that he couldn’t be so right. We Ethiopians lack the ability to speak about ourselves. Keeping secrets is not only tradition & culture but also a requirement. As the popular saying goes, ‘don’t air your dirty laundry,’ there are more that a few reiterations of the same saying in Amharic.
Our struggles are not dirty, they are accomplishments. Success should not be measured by your accomplishments, but by the amount of opposition you have endured through to reach wherever it is that you have reached. Continue reading ‘A Story To Be Told’
Published by Nolawi January 27th, 2007 in Thoughts.
