• Serawit Bekele Debele

Irreecha, an annual ritual celebrated at the end of Ethiopia’s rainy season, offers a window into contemporary socio-political issues.

• Snetsehay Assefa

Does the peace deal between Ethiopia and Eritrea—now rewarded with a Nobel Prize—bring the kind of cooperation between the two countries that it aspired to do a year ago?

• Ruth Jackson

The writer critiques the legacy of Christian missionaries in Africa and making sure her own engagement with Ethiopia doesn't morph into white saviorism.

• Norbert Odero

A reflection by Kenyan writer, Norbert Odero, on a short visa-free visit to Ethiopia.

• Bulelani Jili

Is Africa following China into a techno-dystopian future?

• Hannah Borenstein

What a documentary film on running can tell us about Ethiopia's development trajectory.

• Jostein Løhr Hauge
• Vincent Hardy

Labour challenges in Ethiopia's industrialization.

• Hannah Borenstein

The international body governing track and field announced that the longest distance race to be held will be the 3000 meters. We know who will benefit least from this change.

• Stephanie Jay

In a break with previous administrations, Ethiopia's new Prime Minister has declared that he favors free market capitalism as his preferred economic model.

• Abraham T. Zere

An US congressional delegation to Eritrea—the first in 14 years—which included Ilhan Omar, got little attention in mainstream media. Why?

• Alex Park

In recent years, Rwanda and Ethiopia have been some of the largest recipients of aid money from the UK and US governments, as well as some of the West's leading philanthropies, including the Gates Foundation.

• Jostein Løhr Hauge

What economic gains are in the peace deal between longstanding foes?

• Elizabeth Giorgis

2018 witnessed a fundamental shift in how Ethiopia's ruling party governs. How did it come about, what is incomplete about this transition, and what happens next.

• Abraham T. Zere

So far, the only real beneficiaries of the rapprochement between Ethiopia and Eritrea are Ethiopia and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki.

• Philipp Schütz
• Wongel Abebe
• Nafkot Gebeyehu

Photography has a long history in Ethiopia. Today a team of archivers is using it to collect the memories of Ethiopians between the 1940s and 1980s.

• Abraham T. Zere

The pace of rapprochement between Eritrea and Ethiopia, longtime foes who have been in deadlock for the last 20 years, changes quickly. It is hard to keep up.

• Erin MacLeod

The story of the Rastafari community who moved to their promised land of Ethiopia on land granted by Haile Selassie in the late 1950s as thanks for diaspora's support during the Italian occupation.

• Tyler Fleming

Peter Abrahams lived pan-Africanism (in South Africa, Britain and Jamaica) and remained brave enough to challenge those within it.

• Beza Tesfaye

Whatever we make of the Ethiopian government’s prevarication, the Irreechaa Massacre was a point of no return for the people.

• Erin MacLeod