By Ankob Zuta, Blogger of De Birhan Blogspot 31-7-2011 Over the week I got this e-mail from my old Ethiopian pal and arduous reader of my Blog . The gist of the e-mail was that she wants to dedicate this music(below) to one of her former friends on this Blog. Yap brilliant idea then came… I will use my Weekend ... Read More »
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Ethiopian billionaire wins libel action in UK : BBC reports
Ethiopian tycoon Mohammed Al-Amoudi Ethiopian Review Publisher Elias Kifle 29 July 2011 Last updated at 15:13 GMT An Ethiopian-born billionaire has won £175,000 in libel damages over allegations he had hunted his daughter down so she could be stoned to death. Mohammed Hussein Al-Amoudi was born in Ethiopia, but now spends his time at homes in central London, Surrey and ... Read More »
Daganchew’s sex fiction : Profile of an Ethiopian writer
By Ankob Zuta, Blogger of De Birhan Blogspot 28-7-2011 I am going to a job interview this afternoon , a new one well paying- wish me well. Literature vis-a-vis writing is really a very very nice thing. Especially when you are well read, you have many fans and they send you message saying “You are so…..”. That is cool for ... Read More »
Begging as a custom: Compilation of Ethiopia’s hunger appeals
25-07-2011 By Ankob Zuta, Blogger of De Birhan Blogspot I just read Professor Al Mariam’s article, Dictator with a conscience? , just an hour ago. It was a hilarious one, please do read it. Below, I have complied some of the years, in which there is a record of, Ethiopia’s regime sought for food aid and or emergency appeal. Seemingly ... Read More »
Weekend’s music choice
By Ankob Zuta, Blogger of De Birhan Blogspot 24-7-2011 “I watch her reflection in the mirror, clear and proud with beauty, her lips wide,full painted blood-red and her eyes coloured are large liquid brown.Clasped around her neck, a silver necklace, glittering with green stones, lights up her face “ I took the above excerpt from one of my newly introduced ... Read More »
The Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Somalia and Eritrea: the Full belly Thesis
By Ankob Zuta, Blogger of De Birhan Blogspot 21-7-2011 Somalia’s malnutrition, has been declared a famine by the United Nations yesterday. It is so unreal, in the 21st century famine? damn. The whole region of the Horn of Africa is starving. So sad. But what can a poor man like me do…except lip service and bewail? I am ashamed of ... Read More »
HIM Haile Selassie’s birthday to be celebrated in Wabi Shebele Hotel
HIM Haile Sellasie By Ankob Zuta, Blogger of De Birhan Blogspot 19-7-11 The birthday of His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie, former emperor of Ethiopia, will be celebrated in Wabi Shebelle Hotel,Addis Abeba this Satudrday, July 23rd. According to De Birhan’s sources the half day birthday program is going to be commemorated in the presence of dignitaries, artists and grandsons of ... Read More »
Trivialisation and then about Ethnic media
By Ankob Zuta,Blogger of De Birhan Blogspot 18-7-11 News International phone hacking scandal continues to sequel in a funny way. Imagine this scandal happening in Ethiopia. What would have happened? That is food for thought for you to ponder. But ask me what my opinion is about the Murdoch scandal. My answer would be based on Jurgen Habermas’ thought(t19 97)p ... Read More »