Addis Ababa’s kitchens burn quietly through the city’s future. Behind the glow of its booming siga bets—the raw-meat restaurants that have come to define its ...

Urban quality of life (QoL) is becoming a subject of urban research mainly for western and Asian countries. Such attention is due to an increasing awareness of the contribution of QoL studies in ...

Men, women, the elderly and the young all join in, adorned in eye-catching clothes and jewellery. They sing, dance, share ...

Tatek Abebe is associate professor of childhood studies at Norwegian University of Sciences and Technology. Funding for this research is obtained from the Research Council of Norway, and Institute for ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is one of Africa's most celebrated writers – with Half of a Yellow Sun, Purple Hibiscus and Americana among the books to her name. She is also one of more than 30 artists to ...

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 ...