During the second half of the 20th century, cosmopolitan Ethiopians were delighted to see jazz giant Duke Ellington receive their country’s Medal of Honor from Emperor Haile Selassie. At the same time ...

Music videos have been an event since the dawn of MTV, which, my fair readers, did once indeed show actual music videos in the majority of their programming. (Now, get off my lawn, you young ...

Singer-songwriter Berhana had a lot of influences to pull from for his debut album HAN, out now. Born as Amain Berhane in Atlanta to Ethiopian parents, the singer merged his interests and global ...

Out of this came the AfriZefen music app, which rather appropriately was launched at an Ethiopian football event in the DC area. Within a couple of days, the app had 10,000 downloads and at the end of ...

A year later, no one was asking that last question. Virtually everyone knew what a music video was, and they wanted their MTV. The network revolutionized the music industry, inspired a multitude of ...