December 2010
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Legend has it that coffee in Ethiopia predates the existence of humans.
– Even if you believe in Creation, coffee comes first. Word is, God did plants on the third day. People didn’t come around until day six.
Priorities. No people until you have coffee to give them. It’s why we get there first to make the coffee before we let people in.
(via lattemaker)
:D
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Discovering the Amharic Language: Ethiopia's... →
amhariclanguage:
While Amharic is the most widely known Ethiopian language, Ethiopians also speak a number of other languages in significant numbers. Approximately 33 % of the population of Ethiopian speak Amharic natively. Yet another 32% speak Oromo as their native language. In addition to these two…
A little knowledge for you :)
Julie Mehretu - Painting - NY
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Love her work.
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Lebanon: Ethiopian domestic worker dies while...
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Lebanon’s National News Agency reported today that an Ethiopian domestic worker tried to escape from the house of her employers in Bshamoun, tying bed sheets together and using them as a rope, and climbing down from the 6th floor balcony. The “rope” sheets cut and the Ethiopian girl fell on a B.M.W. car parked near the building. She died instantly. No further information was...
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Ethiopia's opposition leader says WikiLeaks show... →
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Ethiopian Opposition says WikiLeaks documents reveal US policy on Ethiopia is only fight terrorism.
Ethiopia’s main opposition coalition Medrek official and political scientist Dr. Merera Gudina has told SSI that the United States foreign policy in Africa especially in Ethiopia is focused only on the so called fight against terrorism.
However Merera noted that the WikiLeaks...
New Blog
My first tumblr account! I love all of the fyeah’s out there and was sad to see there was none for Ethiopia (though there are some really stellar African ones out there with some great content). So, I’ve taken it upon myself to get it started.
Welcome to FuckYeahEthiopia!