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Review: ‘Difret’ Confronts Sexism in Ethiopia [nytimes]
By NICOLAS RAPOLDOCT
When an Ethiopian girl who survives abduction and rape in “Difret” finds safe haven with her lawyer, you may not expect the question she poses in a quiet moment: Is her host a bad woman? The 14-year-old Hirut (Tizita...
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To this Ethiopian American singer, 'home is always in flux' [By Monica Campbell ]
PRI’s The World
Like a lot of immigrants in the United States, Meklit Hadero’s family arrived to a place unknown, with a single connection drawing them. For Hadero, that place was Iowa, where her dad knew a professor
It was the...
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YETUT LIJ: A film by Haile Gerima - Video
Independent filmmaker Haile Gerima, the writer/director/producer behind TEZA, ADWA, SANKOFA & BUSH MAMA, discusses his new film, YETUT LIJ (“Child of the Breast”), and the campaign that he’s launching on Indiegogo to raise...