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Getty Museum adds rare Ethiopian book
July 30 2008 LATimes
Horologium of Abba Giyorgis
The J. Paul Getty Museum has added a
rare Ethiopian Gospel book to its collection of illuminated manuscripts. Created
around 1504-05 with five full-page paintings and many ornamental touches, it is
one of the few such volumes to have survived wars and a Muslim purge of early
Christian imagery in Ethiopia.
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Restoring Ethiopia's great obelisk
July 22 2008 BBC
The remains of
the old foundations lie nearby - huge blocks of stone cut to fit the base of
the monument. When the work is done they will be placed alongside so visitors
can see the how things were done before the days of cranes and concrete.
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Sheka Forest
Sacredland.com
Southern Nations,
Nationalities and Peoples Region, is divided into 13 zones, one of which is the Sheka
Zone. As nearly half of the Sheka
Zone is forest cover, the Sheka Forest has long been the major source of
livelihood and spiritual practices in the area and remains one of the few
Afromontane forests, supporting diverse wildlife populations.
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Oromo Marriage - Cultural Gap between Oromos and
Abyssinian Amharas & Tigrays
June 20 2008 Dr. Megalommatis American Chronicle
Marriage is one of the most
important institutions in the Oromo culture. Elders and members of the community
have roles in initiating or preparing the young for the pre-marriage, while and
after marriage responsibilities and chunks of events constantly changing and
continuing in time under those internally motivated and externally induced
factors.
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Islam in the Horn of Africa
June 15 2008 Abdulazez Al-Motairi American
Chrinicles
The King of Abyssinian (Habash) Nagashi welcomed the Sahaba to his kingdom and
permitted them to teach and preach their religion in Habash. Even, Nagashi
turned down the request of Arab delegate from Makka who demanded extradition of
the Sahaba.
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Somalia
Islamist Al-Shabaab Militia
June 11 2008 Mohammed
Adow
18 years after Somalia began its
slow descent into anarchy, it is again the setting for one of the bloodiest wars
in Africa's recent history. The war in Somalia is being sustained by armed
Islamist and clan militias. Chief among them is the al-Shabaab (the youth, in
Arabic) militia - the former military wing of the deposed ICU that ruled Somalia
before the Ethiopian-led invasion in 2007.
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Luo Connection in the
Interlucustrine Region
June 6 2008 Peter Mulira AllAfrica
PRESIDENT Museveni's recent claim that all Uganda
kings were Luo touched me personally since my ancestors in the biito clan
founded the Bunyoro-Kitara kingdom around 1350 AD having replaced the earlier
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Mengistu: Is death sentence inappropriate?
June 5 2008 Sun News Publishing
Although it is easy, indeed tempting, to be on the side of those who want
murderers to face the same treatment they visited on others, it has
remained doubtful whether death sentence has really served as a deterrent
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Ethiopia's famed Axum obelisk put up at original
site
June 4 2008 BBC
Work on restoring a 1,700-year-old Ethiopian
monument is set to be completed by the end of June, it has been revealed. When
completed officials expect the monolith to attract the attention of tourists
such as gap year travel enthusiasts.
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The
Founding of the Sudan People's Revolution: SPLM/SPLA (1983-2005)
May 16 2008
Arop Madut Arop
The New Sudan Vision
When the plot was
discovered that this group may wreck the peace agreement and return the country
back to war, both the regional and national authorities acted immediately.
Colonel Abuur was promoted to Brigadier and posted to Wau as second in command
to a northern Commander in order to keep him away from Bussere Camp. Captain
John Garang whom the authorities feared most being a University graduate was
promoted to major and transferred away from Bussere to Bor as commander of the
absorbed Forces there. He was later transferred to the North and in order to
keep him away from the Sudan, John Garang was given scholarship after another
for the next ten years.
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Lost Ark of the Covenant 'traced to Ethiopia'
May 13 2008 UK Telegraph
German archaeologists have
claimed to have found one of the fabled resting places of the Ark of the
Covenant, the chest holding the Ten Commandments which gave the ancient
Israelites their power. The University of
Hamburg say its researchers have found the remains of the 10th century BC palace
of the Queen of Sheba in Axum, Ethiopia, and an altar which at one time
reputedly held the precious treasure. Archaeologist Helmut Ziegert, who is
leading the dig said: “From the dating, its position and the details that we
have found, I am sure that this is the palace.”
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The Inexorable Radiation of Waaqeffannaa, the Oromo Religion
May 11 2008 Dr. Megalommatis Buzzle.com
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Aba Ollaa and his wife in their hut in Didi Hara
In the past, Waaqeffannaa was
practiced, but – contrarily to other religions – not written. There is nothing
wrong with that; the Ancient Egyptian religion did not come to existence with
the pyramids or with Narmer, the first Pharaoh whose times mark the beginning of
the Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic writing. It pre-existed as systematized faith,
but it was not written. There is nothing wrong with a religion that is practiced
without being written down.
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Ancient Egyptian and Kushitic Religions and Waaqeffannaa Oromo Religion
May 10 2008 Dr. Megalommatis Buzzle.com
A theology is not apologetics of nationalist needs; the Oromos will not gain
anything either Africa is or is not proved to be the Origin of Man. Similar
issues can be certainly used by racist and discriminatory regimes that compile
their false historical systems to promote their fallacious versions of history
on the basis of differentiation and discrimination.
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Archaeologists find Queen of Sheba's palace at Axum, Ethiopia
May 8 2008 Trend News
Archaeologists believe they have found the Queen of Sheba's palace at Axum,
Ethiopia and an altar which held the most precious treasure of ancient
Judaism, the Ark of the Covenant, the University of Hamburg said Wednesday,
the
dpa reported. Scientists from the German
city made the startling find during their spring excavation of the site over
the past three months. The Ethiopian queen was the bride of King Solomon of
Israel in the 10th century before the Christian era. The royal match is
among the memorable events in the Bible.
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Festival of 1000 stars
May 2 2008 Africa News
VIEW PHOTO GALLERY
Photo:
Africa News
In the Ethiopian City of Arba Minch, the capital of
the southern province of Gamo-Gofa, a unique music festival is held annually. In
the course of three days, the audience can feast their eyes and ears on a wide
variety of cultures and styles. Dozens of peoples from the region present their
dances and, especially, their music.
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Gughe Indigenous Art and Music
Association
WEBSITE
Every year in mid December something extraordinary takes place in the
beautiful lakeside town of Arba Minch in Southern Ethiopia. The 1000 Stars
Music Festival is a vibrant and colourful celebration of cultural diversity.
It's a unique opportunity to experience, first hand, the varied culture and
music of an exceptional part of our world. Join us in December 2008 for three
days of music and dance from the heart of the Rift Valley, Ethiopia.
2007 saw in the Ethiopian millennium. This year's extravaganza involved over
1000 performers representing more than 56 ethno-linguistic groups from all
over the south of Ethiopia (see below). Many came from very remote areas. The
event attracted well over 60,000 visitors.
Organised by Gughe Indigenous Art and Music Association (GIAMA) and funded by
The Christensen Fund this unique Festival has quickly become one of Africa's
most renowned celebrations of cultural diversity.
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Famous fossil defines a professor's life
May 1 2008 USA Today
Photo: USA TODAY
The man who found Lucy, the world's most famous fossil, is never far from
her.Just steps from
Donald Johanson's office at Arizona State University is a tiny skeleton made
of plastic casts of the 3.2 million-year-old fossil.
They're wired together and propped inside a
glass box. Lucy souvenirs decorate Johanson's office: an "I Love Lucy" button, a
framed Lucy stamp issued in Ethiopia and porcelain Lucy salt-and-pepper shakers.
Single discoveries often define a scientist's career, but nothing in Johanson's
field was as big as the Lucy find in 1974.
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Algeria: Birthplace of
ancient Egypt ?
April 5 2008 By Philip Coppens, Journal 3
The Tassili n’Ajjer of Southern Algiers is
described as the “largest storehouse of rock paintings in the world”.
But could it also be the origins of the ancient Egypt culture?
In January 2003, I made enquiries to visit the Hoggar Mountains
and the Tassili n’Ajjer, one of the most enchanting mountain ranges on
this planet. The two geographically close but nevertheless quite
separate landscapes are located in the Sahara desert in southeast
Algeria. I was told that if I could pack my bags immediately
(literally), I could join the three weeks’ trip.
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Anthropology chair found 'Lucy's Daughter'
July 4 2008 San Francisco Gate
"But
she lived at least 150,000 years before Lucy was ever born, so that little girl
couldn't ever have been any child of Lucy," said anthropologist Zeresenay
Alemseged with a laugh.
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The battle to
keep ancient Egypt Black
April 2 2008 Fred Muhammad
National Geographic magazine insulted the historical
and cultural legacy of Blacks during Black History Month by distorting
history and blatantly insinuating that ancient Egyptians were anything but
Black, said a critic. In an exclusive interview with The Final Call,
Temple University scholar Dr. Molefi Kete Asante decried the article’s
entire framework, beginning with its title “The Black Pharaohs-Conquerors of
Ancient Egypt.”
“If you
assume that this article is about the Black pharaohs then the question that
is begged is that, who were the other pharaohs?” Dr. Asante asserted.
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Study shows life was tough for ancient Egyptians
March 30 2008 Reuters
New evidence of a sick, deprived
population working under harsh conditions contradicts earlier images of
wealth and abundance from the art records of the ancient Egyptian city of
Tell el-Amarna, a study has found.
Tell el-Amarna was briefly the capital
of ancient Egypt during the reign of the pharaoh Akhenaten, who abandoned
most of Egypt's old gods in favor of the Aten sun disk and brought in a
new and more expressive style of art.
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Kush: Many
Barriers Will Come Down As History Unfolds
March 26 2008 AllAfrica
[...] The question was: "So what was the influence of the Cush kingdom in
your country?" This was just before President Museveni told us that all
the Ugandan kings are Luo. I was floored by the question since I had not
addressed the issue of ancient African migrations in any serious way but I
casually recalled that once while preparing a paper for a seminar I
discovered that many of the rituals associated with our monarchies existed
in ancient Egyptian kingdoms as well.
On hearing this, the visitor readily suggested that the connecting point
for the two cultures must have been the kingdom of Cush which can be
traced to the Nilotic people who lived in the vicinity of Khartoum during
the middle stone age in a land known then as Nubia.
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