In a bamboo and matting shelter on the edge of the town of Awassa, rows of tiny children are struggling with Ethiopia's fiendishly complicated Amharic alphabet. "Huh - HUH! Hoo - HOO! Hee - HEE! Ha - ...

Owners Samuel Ergete and Meseret Bekele opened Ethiopic five years ago when they couldn't find an Ethio­pian restaurant that met their expectations for service and food. Almost overnight, the ...

Ethiopian gospel music is often sung in Amharic. But because the Amharic alphabet is so different from the ones the Western world is used to, the language became a copypasta.