Bits & Pieces
Muluken’s Enduring Spirit: Jorga Mesfin and the Legacy of a Legend
Jorga Mesfin, the legendary saxophonist and keyboardist, was a budding jazz musician in college in 1997, exploring the vast universe of music. While in...
Ditto’s End: The Addis Cartography of a Cracked Egg
Listen, that whole chaotic mood swing—last week, or the one before, who even knows—was extreme. A tight Friday wrap that pulled a cosmic all-nighter, spilling over to...
A voice that defined an era: Remembering Muluken Melese
A black vinyl record with a brick-red label spun on the Philips gramophone, playing Muluken Melese’s Bemistir Kiberign during one of our chaotic childhood...
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Buffering the Void: One Waits. One Always Waits. Period.
Truly, the screen seems almost alive. It carries a commanding presence, yet radiates a sense of disorder—a complete atmosphere in itself. You sit before...
Music, Hope, and Healing: A New Year Among Ethiopia’s Young Cancer Warriors
Cancer Is Closer Than We Think — And It Demands Our Compassion My New Year’s celebration this year was perhaps the most unusual yet deeply...
No Second Thoughts: How the Indefinite Article Became My Only HR Policy
The vibe check of my whole life, the existential agonizing reappraisal I conduct in seconds, hinges entirely on that one word that slipped: the...
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Two Wheels and a Second Chance
29 Years Later, I Got Back on a Bike — and Found a New Addis Ababa Back in the early 1980s, one of our childhood...
Remembering Mulugeta Kebede: The gentle hero of Ethiopian football
When my childhood friend Binyam Bisrat and I commuted from Geja Sefer Merkato to Sarbet—a familiar daily routine from school to home—our point of...
Thereby Hangs a Tale: The Permanent Experiment of Rot and the Variance Hunter’s Obsession
The moment is a classic—so universally cringe, it’s basically a whole mood. The kind that makes you wanna crawl inside the dictionary just to...
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Shaking Off Glady’s Spell: A Bright Hope for Ethiopia
When I went to GAST Cinema for my late-night movie, I was hoping to see an action comedy titled Caught Stealing. However, when I...