Back in February of this year, I decided to take a ten day trip to Addis in May. When I told my family and close friends about my planned trip the immediate question I got was, “why ten days, is everything ok?” Well everything was ok but I did not divulge the honest truth. I [...]
Published by August 8th, 2008 in Music, Podcast and Thoughts.Tag Archive for 'ethiopia'
The name Bernos comes from the Arabic word burnous/burnoose for one-pieced cloak like clothing worn my Arabs. The Arabs, who migrated to northern Africa and the Berbers take on this, was to make one of wool, a lot warmer than the Middle Eastern version. Burnous is worn throughout Northwestern Africa especially in Burkina Faso; its [...]
Published by October 12th, 2006 in History and Noteworthy.That was a song as well. I want to extend my appreciation for providing us the platform to reminisce tizetachinen. As I was reading the articles in this bulletin it took me be back to the 1950‘s in the Ethiopian Calendar. Ene “Alemush Manbo sherebush whiskey jenenushe“ (???? ??? ???? ??? ????) Ene Woy Kalibso [...]
Published by April 12th, 2006 in History, Music and Noteworthy.Last Tuesday I went to see the Idan Raichel's Project's live in concert in Washington D.C. I must say I enjoyed it very much. The band consisted of a seven members, if I remember correctly. Idan is the keyboardist and does not do much vocally. There were three vocalists, of which two are from [...]
Published by April 11th, 2006 in Music and Social.I feel it primitive tradition we should forgo. There is apparent Ethiopian-ness and beauty to the art piece. Even, I do feel this is part of our culture we should have let go a similar to that of FGM phenomenon. Throat tattoo from image of the Queen of Sheba: 19th-century Ethiopian manuscript illustration of Solomon [...]
Published by April 4th, 2006 in Design and History.
