Okay…this is not EthiopiaKids.com culture camp, but a group in Ohio called Ethiopia Kids.  It’s a great opportunity for families who have adopted children from Ethiopia or other who are connected to Ethiopia to get together, learn about Ethiopia, to get to know one another, to have fun and to share experiences.  The camp is August [...]

Fasika (Ge’ez: ፋሲካ, sometimes transliterated Fasica) means Easter in Amharic, the official language of Ethiopia. In Ethiopia, the main and longstanding religion has been the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church since the times of Frumentius, and Hebraic religion had previously enjoyed considerable support, traditionally since the Queen of Sheba. In the Tewahido faith, Christ is considered [...]

Selamwit Bizane is a children’s book author, and he’s written a book you might be interested in purchasing.  Journey to Ethiopia with Captain Addis and Hanna is a wonderful children s book that takes young children on an exciting Journey to Ethiopia. A young girl who lives in America, Hanna, decides to write about Ethiopia for [...]

NOTE TO READERS: When I first started this website, Betlehem A. Semahge, an Ethiopian who lives in America, contact me and offered to be of service.  I quickly asked her if she could write an article that would help parents of Ethiopian children understand New Year’s celebrations in Ethiopia.  She wrote this great article and [...]

Historically, throughout the African continent, wildlife populations have been rapidly declining due to logging, civil wars, hunting, pollution, poaching and other human interference. A 17-year long civil war along with severe drought, negatively impacted Ethiopia’s environmental conditions leading to even greater habitat degradation. Habitat destruction is a factor that leads to endangerment. When changes to [...]

Axum or Aksum is a city in northern Ethiopia which was the original capital of the eponymous kingdom of Axum. Axum was a naval and trading power that ruled the region from ca. 400 BC into the 10th century. The kingdom was also arbitrarily identified as Abyssinia, Ethiopia, and India in medieval writings. Located in [...]

EthiopiaKids.com note: If you’ve been to Addis, yet, you’ll find this interesting: It’s fair to say that the average American, including this reporter, has never seen a Lada before, at least not on US highways.  After all, the car was mass-produced in the 1970’s and 80’s by US Cold War adversary, the Soviet Union.   A [...]

At 435,071 square miles (1,127,127 km²), Ethiopia is the world’s 27th-largest country (after Colombia). It is comparable in size to Bolivia. The major portion of Ethiopia lies on the Horn of Africa, which is the eastern-most part of the African landmass. Bordering Ethiopia is Sudan to the west, Djibouti and Eritrea to the north, Somalia [...]

The Ethiopian calendar, also called the Ge’ez calendar, is the principal calendar used in Ethiopia and also serves as the liturgical calendar for Christians in Eritrea belonging to the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahdo Church, Eastern Catholic Church and Lutheran Evangelical Church of Eritrea. It is based on the older Alexandrian or Coptic calendar, which in turn [...]

Ethiopian cuisine characteristically consists of spicy vegetable and meat dishes, usually in the form of wat, a thick stew, served atop injera, a large sourdough flatbread, which is about 50 centimeters (20 inches) in diameter and made out of fermented teff flour. Ethiopians eat with their right hands, using pieces of injera to pick up [...]