• Serawit Bekele Debele

The ongoing displacement and killings of minorities and the ongoing war in Tigray—labeled by the federal government as enforcing law and order—are disturbing. It can't go on.

• Steven W. Thomas

The presence of successful female writers, directors, and producers set Ethiopia's film industry apart from Hollywood, Bollywood, and the rest of world cinema.

• Solen Feyissa

The writer's brother died in the political violence that has become part of how political power is being contested in Ethiopia.

• Safia Aidid

The Ethiopia inscribed with anti-colonial meanings after its victory over European colonialism in 1896 was a colonizing state itself.