The Real Maids of Beirut
The vast majority of domestic workers in the Middle East are migrant workers. A fair number are from Africa, particularly Kenya and Ethiopia.
Ethiopia
Music Break
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTRmpJ_EpJE Dub Colossus member Samuel Yirga “plays one night a week in Addis’s only jazz club/coffee
Fool's Gold
http://youtu.be/Es-SyYrpg2c Fool’s Gold’s “Surprise Hotel.” The group started as a side project of two young LA
The Land Question
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yGkJsR7-HY] The Guardian’s John Vidal reports from Ethiopia’s remote Gambella region where in the last 10
Shemelis Desta
A post about Ethiopia that is not about Meles Zenawi’s regime. Next week (Tuesday 7 till
The Waka Waka Award*
This may yet become a weekly award on AIAC. The inaugural Waka Waka Award–name in honor
‘Tell Them You’re American’
I can’t say I was completely bowled over by Dinaw Mengistu’s first novel, “The Beautiful Things
Ethiopian Democracy Lesson
Sean Jacobs Earlier this week the Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi addressed a public lecture on
Somalia’s colonizers dressed well
Jeffrey Gettleman, The New York Times’ Africa Correspondent, frequently seizes opportunities to slander Africans while praising their colonizers.