Tag Archive for 'general-ethiopian-stuff'



Kuas Enechawet 140 Comments

After the much awaited Millennium chefera in Ethiopia, the next deges has to be in South Africa. On May 15, 2004, history was made as it was announced that South Africa will host the 2010 Fifa Football World Cup. History was also made as I started a savings account. Thanks to a new policy to [...]

Retiring Milli 22 Comments

September 12 will be a celebration of a new year and most importantly it will be the celebration of a new Millennium. The countdown for the celebration of the Ethiopian Millennium started a long time ago and we are closing fast on it. So we thought we should retire the Ethio-Milli tee before the Millennium. [...]

Ethiopian Meatballs 945 Comments

I like integrating American food with Ethiopian. One of the things I remember growing up was the mini meatballs on toothpicks that were served Hors d’œuvre like at wedding and birthday parties. We would always have them and gibjza’s in our place… I really loved them, and everyone I know loved them too; they disappeared [...]

A Friend Anywhere 102 Comments

I was trying to find where I can use the internet when a voice asked, “Habesha nesh?” I smiled and confirmed. He was an Ethiopian who worked at the Zurich airport. I was surprised to find another Ethiopian. I was similarly surprised once when I had a layover in Minnesota and I noticed there were [...]

Konjit 5,599 Comments

Beauty is not in the eye of the beholder You know the kind people turn around for…; the one that singers write songs for, painters paint about, the kind poems are written about… It exists, and society based on environment has a consensus. The liberal idealists we are would disagree! We would say that beauty [...]