Musicians from Africa to the Caribbean pumped shuddering bass lines through huge loudspeakers to open a show in Addis Ababa on Sunday honouring the 60th anniversary of the birth of reggae icon Bob ...

Popular Ethiopian reggae singer Eyob Mekonnen was laid to rest on Wednesday, August 21, 2013, at the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Abeba in the presence of his family, fans and friends. He passed on ...

Jamaica and Ethiopia have long-standing cultural ties. Rastafarians believe that the late Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie was actually the second coming of the Messiah, and since the 1970s, reggae ...

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Jules Benji, a massed choir singing No Woman No Cry over his shoulder from a huge stage in Meskel Square, Addis Ababa, declared: "We're doing His Majesty's work here. This is a historic day for ...

Hip-hop musician Harrisong, it was, who grafted the slang into the national lexicon two years ago with his hit, “Reggae and Blues”. Invoking the protest word “reggae” as metaphor for war and “blues” ...

ETHIOPIA:SEQUESTERED IN a dank prison cell, Ethiopia's biggest reggae star awaits trial in a deadly hit-and-run case that has galvanised the nation, writes Edmund Sanders. Federal prosecutors say ...