At the beginning of Alan Donovan’s book, My Journey through African Heritage, he quotes something Robert Redford says to Meryl Streep in the film version of Karen Blixen’s ‘Out of Africa’: ‘We’re not ...

For Birhan, a 37-year-old bride-to-be in Dallas with both Ethiopian and Eritrean roots, the decision to get her hair braided for her mels, or reception, wasn’t about vanity—it was about return. About ...

Sometimes, she said, it can be a struggle to keep up with traditions amid so many distractions in the city. But it’s worth it, she said, for the church to encourage other young Ethiopian ...

There are several factors behind the decline of the traditional wedding dress, including financial pressures and growth in ...

The five canons of classical rhetoric – invention, arrangement, style, memory and delivery – can be very helpful when writing ...

A recent study by researchers Dr. Dorota Dzierzbicka and Dr. Daria Elagina re-examined and translated a rare first-hand account of a 16th-century Ethiopian monk visiting old Dongola, Sudan.

The ritual, which originated from the United Kingdom, is meant to ward off rain Ally Chandler; Lucy Kalice Brides all around the world are following the United Kingdom wedding tradition of burying ...

writer and producer shared that he and his partner John-Michael Sudsina plan to incorporate some South Korean traditions into their wedding ceremony. "The suit that I want to wear, I want it to ...

Sung by Yang and her collaborators, the opening song filled the theater with a hauntingly beautiful melody, evoking the ancient and otherworldly essence of the story. The melody, drawn from the ...

Adding to the tradition, florist Philippa Craddock worked something old into Meghan’s bouquet: sprigs of myrtle from a plant grown from the myrtle used in Queen Elizabeth’s 1947 wedding ...