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 On A Day Like This…
Constantine Bell | May 13 2010
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The completion of a solo album project is often difficult and arduous, partly because the attention of the listener is focused on one individual, and partly because the bulk of the creative load is carried by the artist. Meklit Hadero succeeds in carrying all those burdens.

 Song of Songs of Kazanchis
S. Yoseph | Apr 23 2010
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In his novel, Tedbabe Tilahun describes the nightly Kazantchis, as opposed to daytime Addis Ababa: its sex workers, their friends, customers, employers, lovers and lives in the dawn of a HIV/AIDS infested world.

 Beneath the Lion’s Gaze
Gabriel Abraham | Jan 18 2010
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In her searing first novel, Maaza Mengiste recounts the experiences of the 1974 Ethiopian revolution with memories crisp and scabs still unhealed and festering.

 Teza
H. Asrat | Sep 08 2009
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Set in Ethiopia during Mengistu Hailemariam's regime, Haile Gerima’s Teza tells the story of Anberber, a scientist who, traumatized by his experiences abroad, returns home 

 Madcon: So Dark the Con of Man
H. Asrat | Aug 11 2009
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Hiphop in Norway? Tshawe Baqwa and Yosef Wolde-Mariam give music lovers something to nod their heads to. Like most healthy duos, Madcon happens in twos. The Norwegian hiphop group derives its name from

 Guzo
H. Asrat | May 14 2009
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Aida Ashenafi's Guzo recounts the experiences of two Addis Abeba city dwellers who for the first time, spend a period of 20 days in the Ethiopian countryside, in a small village close to

 La Haine
H. Asrat | May 13 2009
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Set in the projects of the Paris suburbs, Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine circles around three friends—Hubert, Vinz and Said—as they cope with the aftermath of riots incited by

 The No.1 Ladies’ Detective Agency
S. Yoseph | May 04 2009
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Will a show about an African woman become HBO's and the BBC's new success story? These networks seem to believe so, having signed for 13 episodes of the all new The No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency.
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