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Technology: You CAN Stop the Signal: Anchor Slows Down East Africa’s Access...
What is it with ships boldly going where they are not supposed to go? Captain Kirk wasn't involved, but with these kind of shenanigans, it'd be easy to see how people could think it was his handiwork....
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The 10 at 10
1. Obama and Zuckerberg are bros.2. Red Sox–Yankees? That’s nothing.3. There’s a lot you don’t know about Internet sex.4. Anyone can play basketball against the University of North Carolina.5. They...
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A Good Man from Africa
Dr. Theodore Vestal remembers Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia as a leader, innovator, and international celebrity.With all the remembrance of Astronaut John Glenn’s rocketing around the world fifty...
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Militarised Politics is the Norm in Troubled South Sudan
Peacekeeping in South Sudan means grappling with deep ethnic divisions.By Jairo Munive Rincon, Danish Institute for International StudiesAgainst a backdrop of continuing ethnic violence, delegations...
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Changing Lives: Bringing My Daughter Home From Ethiopia
Paul Steinmetz recalls the journey to adopt his three-year-old daughter from Africa.—My middle-class life is normally calm, and although I like it very much, observers might describe it as boring most...
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Learning to Live Comfortably in My White Male Skin
Samuel Mahaffy is a man coming clean about his prejudice against white males in this culture—particularly surprising because he is one. —The white guys in pickups with big wheels just make me nervous....
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How to Stop the World’s 3.1 Billion Young People Being Left Behind
Embed from Getty ImagesJo Boyden, University of OxfordThere are more young people in the world than ever before. While some see the planet’s 3.1 billion under 25-year-olds as a threat, others see the...
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From Slavery to Colonialism and School Rules: A History of Myths About Black...
Embed from Getty ImagesBy Hlonipha Mokoena“Your hair feels like pubic hair.” That was one of the first insults that someone hurled at my hair. She was a junior at my school. She would touch my hair...
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This Is My Father’s Father’s Father’s Land – A Photographic Essay
10 real male warriors and what they can tell us about our lives.—-Karapiru (above image), an Awá father, smiles at the camera at his home in Maranhão state, Brazil.His expression belies the trauma he...
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Man, Just Hop On!
Embed from Getty ImagesTwo days out of the week, our children come home from school eager to go to soccer practice. For them, soccer is a time to hang out with other children their age and play a game...
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Hitch Hiking in Ethiopia – Part I
“Woah!” I exclaimed as I caught sight of the Blue Nile gorge far off in the distance.I couldn’t believe it. Right off the highway was the very view that made Ethiopia’s Abyssinian highlands infamous....
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Hitch Hiking in Ethiopia – Part II
“Today is April 1st, ” Hailay grinned.“Yeah, I don’t play,” I said.Hailay had picked me up with his driver and another passenger on the outskirts of Debra Birhan. When we hit Desse, some six hours...
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Hitch Hiking in Ethiopia – Part III
I awoke early to the sounds of the nearby church. Like the mosques, the orthodox churches in Ethiopia are round and have speakers where the priest blasts out his prayer songs.I was led up to the...
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Piano in Addis Ababa
As an elegant piano tone starts to play, people come from all corners to find a young man playing a piano.Immerse yourself into the street scene of another place, another culture, people, so many...
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This is Why Your Coffee Beans Matter to the Planet
Coffee is one of the world’s most traded commodities and last year, 148 million 132-pound bags of coffee were produced globally. Southwest Ethiopia is home to the important Coffea Arabica, the...
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Date Night: You Are One Click From Getting 7,000 Miles Away. (Best Offer...
— Buy it on Amazon. The ingredients sound…odd. Mulatu Astatke grew up in Ethiopia but went abroad to study jazz in America. He was influenced by Miles Davis and John Coltrane — and by the organist...
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Ethiopia: Netizens Thrilled with PEN Award for Dissident Blogger and Journalist
— By Endalkachew Chala Jailed Ethiopian dissident blogger and journalist Eskinder Nega is the winner of Pen America’s PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award for his endeavor for freedom of...
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