Althea McNish: 'I designed fabrics for the Queen' Emperor Tewodros II is one of the towering figures of modern Ethiopian history. He tried to unify and modernise Ethiopia but his reign was also marked ...

Gabriella Ghermandi is a singer, performer and writer born in Addis Ababa in 1965 to an Italian father and an Italian-Eritrean mother raised in Ethiopia. Ghermandi moved to Italy in 1979, during the ...

Legendary Ethiopian singer Alemayehu Eshete, 80, died in Addis Ababa on Thursday. Nicknamed "the Ethiopian Elvis", the musician died of a heart attack shortly after he was admitted to hospital, ...

Though the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was considered a god by Rastafarians, in Bob Marley's day, reggae music wasn't popular in Ethiopia. Now, though, reggae is huge in the East African ...