Ethiopian artist Wosene Worke Kosrof explores the aesthetic potential of symbols from the Amharic script. He began distorting the symbols of his language 35 years ago and it is now an integral part of ...

Kosrof emigrated to the United States from Ethiopia in 1978 to study fine art at Howard University. He’s been painting ever since, and for the last several decades, he has made the San Francisco Bay ...

A new range of mobile phones has just gone on sale in Ethiopia, with the onscreen menu in Amharic, and the ability to send SMS text messages in the Ge'ez script - used for Amharic and other languages ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper presents an edited version, translation and analysis of hitherto unpublished Amharic poems (45 couplets), copied or written ca.