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spotlightethio
Feb 5, 20231 min read
Heli Amare: Bringing Together Pan-Africans
Heli Amare is the Founder of Evrything Africa, a 3-day Pan-African conference that highlights and celebrates various African experiences...
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spotlightethio
Feb 5, 20231 min read
Addis Fine Art: Bringing African Art to the World
Rakeb Sile and Mesai Haileleul co-founded Addis Fine Art in 2016, creating the first white-cube gallery space for modern and contemporary...
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spotlightethio
Feb 5, 20231 min read
Fanuel Leul: Imagining a Futuristic Africa
Fanuel Leul is a multidisciplinary artist whose work often explores Afro-futurism by contrasting elements of African tradition with...
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spotlightethio
Feb 5, 20231 min read
The Goat Café: A New-School Concept to Coffee
Meet the café that's disrupting the mainstream coffee consumption in Ethiopia and giving the traditional coffee culture a unique new...
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spotlightethio
Feb 5, 20231 min read
Kiya Tadele: Storytelling Through NFTs
Led by Kiya Tadele, Yatreda (ያጥሬዳ) is a family of artists in Ethiopia creating in the style of tizita and celebrating Ethiopian history...
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spotlightethio
Feb 5, 20231 min read
Awol Erizku: Exploring Afro-esotericism
Awol Erizku is a multidisciplinary artist working in photography, film and sculpture, who has made a mark on the art world map in a...
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spotlightethio
Feb 5, 20231 min read
Kushineta Skate: Ethiopia’s Skateboard Pioneers
Kushineta is a skateboard pioneer start-up that helped build the local skateboard scene in Addis Ababa. Also, they produce and sell...
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spotlightethio
Feb 5, 20231 min read
Bruktawit Tigabu: Educational Multimedia Leader
Bruktawit Tigabu is an award-winning educational children's TV show producer, film director, animator and school teacher on a mission to...
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spotlightethio
Feb 5, 20231 min read
Habtamu Tadesse: Serial Technology Entrepreneur
Habtamu Tadesse is the Founder and CEO of ZayRide, one of the pioneer ride-hailing platforms in Ethiopia, and ArifPay, Ethiopia’s first...
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spotlightethio
Apr 24, 20221 min read
What Ethiopia's Startup Act Means for Entrepreneurs
Ethiopia’s Startup Act aims to establish a National Startup Council and an Innovation Fund. If passed, this will make it easier to...
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spotlightethio
Apr 23, 20221 min read
Supporting Entrepreneurial Women
The First Phase Women Entrepreneurship Development Project implemented with 250 million USD in the past 7 years was executed in 10 cities...
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spotlightethio
Feb 21, 20221 min read
Ethiopia's Digital Audio Pioneers
Teraki app is the First Audio Entertainment Platform that enables you to have and discover Ethiopian/Eritrean Audiobooks and Podcasts...
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spotlightethio
Nov 10, 20211 min read
Tech Collaboration for Developers
How Stackshare is becoming a go-to platform for numerous players in the startup ecosystem. Air BnB, Dropbox, Spotify and other major...
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spotlightethio
Nov 10, 20211 min read
Supporting Women's Employment
With an 80% female staff, Kabana Leather is focused on creating meaningful employment opportunities for women and contribution to...
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spotlightethio
Nov 10, 20211 min read
Markos Lemma: Empowering Tech Startups
Markos Lemma is an entrepreneur that wears many hats but is most well known as the CEO and co-founder of iceaddis, Ethiopia’s first...
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