The joint Ethiopian-German project, “Documenting an Ancient Education System in Africa: Abǝnnät Tǝmhǝrt in Ethiopia”, had its official starting on the 1st of October 2021, with the collaboration of the host institute-Hiob Ludolf Center for Ethiopian Studies, University of Hamburg, Germany. The launching of the project on an ancient education system namely, the ‘Abǝnnät Tǝmhǝrt’, intends […]
Education
Haramaya University Holds Graduation Ceremony
Haramaya University conducted the 66th round of students’ graduation ceremony on October 30, 2021 at the University’s Academy of Sports Sciences. A total of 4,075 students, who were able to conclude their courses in different fields of study, made it to the graduation. According to Prof. Mengitu Urge, Vice President for Academic Affairs, the University […]
AAU Donates Food and Non-food Items to War Victims
Addis Ababa University (AAU) donated food and non-food items to war victims displaced in Northern Ethiopia in attendance of the President and other senior officials of the University with a dispatching ceremony held at Sidist Kilo Main Campus on the 11th of November 2021. As Professor Tassew Weldehanna, President of AAU, stated during the dispatch, the […]
AAU Students Get International Recognition for Innovating Food Solutions
A team of four pharmacy students from Addis Ababa University (AAU) College of Health Sciences (CHS) got international recognition for innovating food solutions from fava bean and barley to alleviate child malnutrition and improper dietary practices. Naol Adugna, one of the nutritionalists, said that their observation of many children prone to stunting and other problems […]
How I reconstructed an unwritten ancient African language
Africa is humankind’s home continent. Homo sapiens, with the anatomical and cognitive capacity to have human language as we know it today, originated in Africa between 300,000 and 200,000 years ago. Then, as an abundant fossil and archaeological record makes clear, some of our human ancestors left Africa. They spread to neighbouring continents, taking their languages with […]
CREI Holds 17th In-Campus Seminar
Ethiopian Civil Service University, Center for Research in Ethics and Integrity (CREI) held its 17th in-campus Seminar on November 4, 2021, at Abay Hall. The seminar was held under the theme of “Linguistic Pluralism and Nation-Building in Ethiopia” The speaker in the seminar, Professor Zelalem Liyew, from Addis Ababa University, explained the relation and interconnection […]