Adeola Ogunlade, who recently visited Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, writes on his impressions of the city that has served as headquarters of the Organisation of Africa Unity (OAU) and its successor Africa ...
Addis Ababa, October 3, 2025 (ENA) -- I read Jane Flanagan’s article on The Times, “Addis Ababa takes a bulldozer to its past in bid to be ‘Dubai of Africa,’” and my heart clenched. It was written as ...
The Addis Ababa Massacre: Italy’s National Shame. By Ian Campbell. Hurst; 478 pages; £30. To be published in America by Oxford University Press in August. NEAR the village of Affile, on a picturesque ...
The world is filled with buildings erected primarily as symbols. Some are impressive; others are not. When Em­peror Haile Selassie of Ethiopia inaugurated Addis Ababa’s Africa Hall in 1961, it hit the ...