Mulatu Astatke experienced his musical conversion as a teenager while supposedly studying engineering abroad, mastering piano, vibraphone and Latin percussion in London, Boston and New York. After he ...

Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience. Last month in London, ...

You’d expect a conversation with Mulatu Astatke to be about music. He is, after all, the father of a musical genre: Ethio-jazz. But when he talks about the art form, he tends to focus on its ...

TO WESTERN EARS, the music seems both foreign and familiar. Its mood stretches from sultry and haunting to upbeat and vibrant. Soulful Western undertones are audible, yet the overall impression is ...

ADDIS ABABA, Feb 12 (Reuters) - Ethiopian state-owned telecoms firm Ethio Telecom recorded half-year revenue of 61.9 billion birr ($491.57 million), up more than 40% on the same period a year earlier, ...

Ethio Telecom CEO Frehiwot Tamiru told a press conference in late July that the telecoms company’s revenues had grown significantly, in large part due to network expansion and a 5.8% increase in its ...

This content is provided by an external author without editing by Finextra. It expresses the views and opinions of the author. In a high-level meeting, Ethio Telecom CEO Frehiwot Tamru and Mark ...