The concept of "Africa rising" has long lacked significance, and the idea of an African renaissance often appears as a lofty slogan without practical manifestation. However, recent political events in ...

Jamaica and Ethiopia have long-standing cultural ties. Rastafarians believe that the late Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was actually the second coming of the Messiah, and since the 1970s, reggae ...

Teddy Afro, the New Reggae God of Ethiopia Though the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie was considered a god by Rastafarians, in Bob Marley's day, reggae music wasn't popular in Ethiopia. Now, ...

Two-time Grammy-nominated reggae star Protoje has spent the past 15 years valiantly merging classic reggae with contemporary audiences' increasingly cross-genre sensibilities — but his newest LP feels ...

The D.C. area is already home to the United States’ largest Ethiopian population, but this week brings a surge of Ethiopian culture thanks to the 30th Ethiopian Sports Federation in North America ...

Hear them roar: Tel Aviv-based Zvuloon Dub System embarks on its first tour of the U.S. Photo by Noam Chojnowski As far back as Asaf Smilan can remember, the Lion of Judah has been present in his life ...

It may be news to some, but reggae music owes a great debt of gratitude to the late Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie I. For decades, Carlyle McKetty and Sharon Gordon of the Coalition to Preserve ...

At age 6, while growing up in Kiryat Arba, an Israeli settlement in the occupied West Bank, Ester Rada began rejecting the music her Ethiopian refugee parents played at home, as well as the Amharic ...

Admas draws from and rearranges “golden era” Ethiopian music with then-fairly-new synthesizer and drum-machine rhythms. Steve Kiviat Admas. From left, clockwise: Abegasu Shiota, Henock Temesgen, ...

The reggae sensation is back with his first solo album in four years. Read the Billboard interview. By Kyle Denis Two-time Grammy-nominated reggae star Protoje has spent the past 15 years valiantly ...