Day: September 3, 2015

Hiwot Emishaw: challenging Ethiopia’s err on the color dark

A young, upcoming author tackles Ethiopia’s old, foreboding myth on the skin color dark   Mahlet Fasil   The title story in Hiwot Emishaw’s enjoyable first collection of essays and short stories, Baricho, muses on a subject that is far less common in discussions amongst Ethiopians than it is in actuality: the power of skin color tones over our sociological…

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