Monday, December 29, 2025

Bits & Pieces

The National Disease: How Conflicts Of Interest are Eating Away at Ethiopia’s Foundations

The Unheeded Alarm The year was 1988. The Derg regime still held power, and Ethiopia stood at a crossroads. That year, as a Public Relations...

An Album Release That Looked to the Stars

When I was invited to the release of Sydney Salmon’s new album one Friday afternoon at the African Jazz Village inside the Ghion Hotel,...

Lump it or Find the Float: How Positive Deviance Becomes the New First Water at AAU

I went out for coffee. An idea flashed, immediately. I thanked Balzac. The table attendant, due to some system flop, took ages to settle the...

Connecting 300 million people to electricity and building a resilient future in Africa

One of the resounding messages of the recent Mission 300 Africa Energy Summit was that closing the energy-access gap—for electricity and clean cooking—is possible....

Hydrology and Hypochondria: A Sulfurous Discourse on Global and Local Decay  

Mid. So, the walk, right? Pure oldies stroll. Legs felt like Jell-O in a heatwave—a total structural flop against the sheer intention of sublimation....

When the Nile shows up in supermarket aisles

A recent visit to Fresh Corner, one of Addis Ababa’s increasingly ubiquitous grocery chains, began with a simple errand: buying fresh fruit for a...

ZUGZWANG: The Un-Silence of the Synthetic Self

Sunday. Post-lunch. The atmosphere was pure, low-grade tension. Write or stroll. That was the whole setup. The writing urge was bugging me; the whole day...

The Lament and Legacy of Muluken Melese

An almost childlike voice carries a haunting lament — a song both melancholic and relatable, eccentric yet painfully realistic. In his famous track Enate...

Muluken’s Enduring Spirit: Jorga Mesfin and the Legacy of a Legend

Jorga Mesfin, the legendary saxophonist and keyboardist, was a budding jazz musician in college in 1997, exploring the vast universe of music. While in...

Ditto’s End: The Addis Cartography of a Cracked Egg

Listen, that whole chaotic mood swing—last week, or the one before, who even knows—was extreme. A tight Friday wrap that pulled a cosmic all-nighter, spilling over to...
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