Ms Agelgil : አገልግል
realities and musings of an ethiopian diasporian
I blog about #lifeinaddis and more at agelgil.wordpress.com
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Yene Tizita by Vahé
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‘Geez Girl’ by Ethiopian Designer Yoan
The design incorporates geez numbers (‘ahaz’) as used in a Clock (1-12) , the corresponding latin numbers and a simplified monochrome illustration of a symbolic ‘Habesha’ (Ethiopian and Eritrean) female portrait.
Available here http://society6.com/byoand/GEEZ-GIRL_Pillow
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When watching television with an African presenter, when they make a grammatical error, we as the audience cringe at their incompetence. Yet when Italians, Germans and French do the
same we do not cringe. We are ashamed of who we are and spend so much time trying to be someone else. We need to be proud of our unique essence.— Dr. Nkosana Moyo at Harvard Africa Business Conference 2013 -
(via onedropmove)
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Workers in rice field in Ethiopia
Source: Johan Bavman/Moment/Redux
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23 year old Ethiopian-Canadian Aba Atlas pays off his mother’s mortgage by saving up 2 years of his entry-level military salary.
What a beautiful story…
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LA Habesha: Interracial Dating in the Ethiopian Community
Needless to say, it can be difficult to date as an Ethiopian living in the States.
For us who have been born and raised here or came from Ethiopia at a young age, we have been exposed to dozens of different ethnicities and cultures. While many young Ethiopians living in America are…
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Four Steps to a Happy Relationship, According to Ethiopian Men
On a recent trip to Ethiopia, I asked the same question of many men, some single and dating, some young and newly married, and some older men in committed relationships for many years: What makes a relationship successful?
These men were all fairly modern, urban, and well-educated, which biased their responses in a direction of more non-traditional forms of (heterosexual) relationships where men and women are equal partners.
Click on headline to read the rest.
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How Ethiopian Airlines Saved A Marriage
I had just finished a workshop in Harmony Hotel and was waiting in the lobby for my always-late friend to have dinner with. While waiting, I met a foreign Ethiopian Airlines pilot. I was quite surprised…Click on the headline to read the rest of my newest blog post.
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‘People say to me, “What’s it like being an African woman?” I am also an economist. Nobody should be bogged down by how other people define them. People have said I’m not really African. Yes, I am. Those people are wrong and it’s not my business to correct them if they can’t be bothered to go to Africa and look around and see that there really are African doctors and lawyers. People have a penchant for horror stories, but that’s not the way people live [in Africa]. Of course there are wars and disease but in a population of a billion you could argue it’s relatively isolated cases. It’s not the case that the whole continent is in civil war and people are dying of HIV/Aids.’
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Apartment Renovation Project…. done and dusted.
Over the Christmas holidays it was great to be working onsite in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia renovating this lovely 3 bedroom apartment.
What a change from the studio…
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Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn’t the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
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Ye Porn Guday (The Porn Issue)
Read my new blog post about porn in Ethiopia. Yes I am not kidding. Porn in Ethiopia.
