Kebebush’s Mood I think Kebebush from the Bernos Press (aka BP) is in love! Out of no where, she tells me she has an idea for an article. The idea? A podcast of love songs by Aster Aweke The truth is Kebebush is a Graduate school student and with papers and exams creeping behind her [...]
Archive for the 'Music' Category
Nolawi's post on "Fua Fua yilal Dodgu" reminded me that I had slacked off on the blog and need to get back to business! For those unaware, "Dodgu" was first performed back in the early 60's if not earlier–I still have to find the original artist. Netsanet Melesse re-recorded it in the mid 1980's with [...]
I heard it when I was really young not into music that much, but I remember liking the zema and puzzled about the meaning arnechata. If you don’t know what song I am talking about its Netsanet Mellesse’s Dodge. I don’t know much about her except that she was the original lead singer of second [...]
Probably, one of the progressive words of Amharic Slang, or so I thought. My uncle asked me if I thought that I was only arada, he claimed arada long before you I was born. Hmmm, so there was arada’s in the sixties. For years, I saw the word used as a adjective. In reality its [...]
One of the best times I spent during my short break home was with my emama. On one of these occasions I was tickled to learn that we have ETV2. A second Ethiopian Television channel that ends at 10:00pm. My mom doesn't own a satellite dish, in fact she hates the television. The only reason [...]
