When most folks think of Ethiopian music they hear the slithering soul-funk sounds created by artists like Mahmoud Ahmed or Tilahun Gessesse—killer singers who delivered Amharic-language jams with ...
The compositions of Emahoy Tsegué-Mariam Guebrù who was in near seclusion for nearly 30 years have been discovered by an Israeli pianist, who describes them as a "strange combination of classical, ...
The essay addresses the origins of the literary expressions of Ethiopia: its oral literature, classical literature, and Amharic literature proper. The oral literature of Ethiopia, including folk tales ...