Dylan Gamba

4 days ago | barrons.com | Dylan Gamba

Journalists are facing raids and terrorism charges in Ethiopia as the media denounces a renewed "climate of fear" ahead of elections next year. There had been hopes for greater press freedom after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took power in 2018, with exiled journalists encouraged to return. But a brutal war in the Tigray region from 2020 to 2022, and ongoing insurgencies in Amhara and Oromia regions, have led to those freedoms being once again harshly curtailed.

2 weeks ago | infobae.com | Dylan Gamba

Mulatu Astatke luchó durante décadas antes de que su nombre se asociara mundialmente con un género musical y finalmente fuera reconocido como el padre del Ethio-jazz. Ahora, a pesar de ese largo recorrido y sus 81 años de edad, la leyenda de la música etíope ni siquiera puede “pensar en retirarse”.

3 weeks ago | barrons.com | Dylan Gamba

Mulatu Astatke struggled for decades before his name became associated worldwide with a musical genre and he was finally born as the father of Ethio-jazz. Now despite that long journey and his 81 years of age, the Ethiopian music legend cannot even "think about retirement". A one-man band, equally at home with the vibraphone and the conga, a Cuban drum, he created a unique musical blend in the 1960s, a mix of traditional Ethiopian music, funk brass, Afro-beat and Latin jazz.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Dylan Gamba

Tilahun Wale not only lost his right foot to leprosy -- a disease that still affects thousands in Ethiopia -- he also lost his family. "My family abandoned me. They blocked my number and refused to speak to me," said Tilahun, 46, a farmer in Ethiopia's populous Oromia region, who contracted leprosy around 10 years ago.

3 weeks ago | barrons.com | Dylan Gamba

Mulatu Astatke struggled for decades before his name became associated worldwide with a musical genre and he was finally born as the father of Ethio-jazz. Now despite that long journey and his 81 years of age, the Ethiopian music legend cannot even "think about retirement". A one-man band, equally at home with the vibraphone and the conga, a Cuban drum, he created a unique musical blend in the 1960s, a mix of traditional Ethiopian music, funk brass, Afro-beat, and Latin jazz.