Day: April 1, 2014
- Art Review
The Gumma film award
The Gumma film award was held at the National Theatre on February17th in which 23 Ethiopian movies made in the year 2012 were nominated for 17 different categories. Accordingly the Gumma film award for Best Film of the year 2012 went for Yelomi Shita. Solomon Bogale took home the Best Actor award while Elizabeth Melaku took home the award for…
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Senai Wolderufael
2014 Forbes 30 Most Promising Young Entrepreneurs in Africa Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Senai Wonderufael, 27, is a graduate of business administration and had worked for Ethiopian Airlines for four years before he embarked on making his dream of “having my own company” a reality, which he established in the summer of 2012 but only could start…
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The fight for Africa’s statistics narrative
The 9th Symposium on Statistical Development in Africa (ASSD), held in the end of last month in Gaborone, Botswana, took an intense turn when participants, mainly African statisticians and policy makers, took turns to criticize Morten Jerven’s 2013 book ‘Poor numbers: How we are mislead by African development statistics and what to do about it’ in the presence of the…
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The fight for Africa’s statistics narrative
The 9th Symposium on Statistical Development in Africa (ASSD), held in the end of last month in Gaborone, Botswana, took an intense turn when participants, mainly African statisticians and policy makers, took turns to criticize Morten Jerven’s 2013 book ‘Poor numbers: How we are mislead by African development statistics and what to do about it’ in the presence of the…
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