A three points forfeit, 250,000 Birr fine, all the remaining matches to take place 500KM away from the town and a one year suspension that go along with 20,000 Birr fine on head coach Zemariam W/Giorgis, Woldya Ketema appears a side to face a huge set back to drive through the season campaign.
Though Zemariam later to be admitted to hospital for serious head injury, claimed to be the victim of the riot at the stadium, Ethiopian Football Federation discipline committee slapped him with a tough hand accusing him of provoking the players for the ugly situation created on the field.
According to some eye witnesses Woldya supporters invaded the pitch not only for the days result rather for the team’s consecutive poor performances. “Many are frustrated for Zemaraiam’s failure to deliver for the team that paid him more than one million Birr signing fee” one eyewitness remarked. “He signed big name players each with more than 1.2 million Birr but he could not make them deliver what is expected of them” the witness added.
In the meantime Zemariam in his brief stay with “Hat Trick” sport news remarked that he would never go back to Woldya after all that nasty situation. “I beg a pardon to the players including Fitsum G/Mariam to try to convince them to go back to the club after such incident months before. They did right in refusing to return rather paid hundreds of thousands Birr to have their release” Zemariam told Hat Trick News. Woldya Ketema is currently under a make shift coach and opted to play the match against Sidama Bunna at Sebeta Ketema Stadium.
Woldya Ketema and Zemariam slapped with EFF heavy hands
Dicha and St George wiped off Confederation Cup
Wolayta Dicha’s Confederation Cup adventures came to an end on Wednesday after the aggregate 2-1 defeat to Young Africa of Tanzania while Kidus Giorgis bowed out of Confederation Cup group stage following a penalty shootout defeat to Congolese outfit KARA Brazzaville.
Though Togolese Jaco Arafat opened the score sheet just two minutes in to the game and the vociferous home crowed stayed on tip toe all through ninety minutes at Hawassa international stadium, the visitors gallantly defended their goal denying a second goal to the home side. Determined Dicha dominated ball possession as well created some golden goal chances but failed to find the back of the net. Young Africa’s lone striker Oberu Chiriwa had had two golden chances that he missed from close range.
Young Africa that knocked out Ethiopia Bunna some twenty years back made it again over Wolayta Dicha with a 2-1 victory. “Had it not been for lack of experience, I believe the players had the capacity to join the group stage” remarked Dicha head coach Zenebe Fiseha after the game.
Kidus Giorgis’s big dream of a second successive Confederation Cup group stage failed to come true after a penalty shootout loss to home side Kara. The visitors stood strong until the 34thminute when Ngoma Meebo scored for the home side making the aggregate result to one all. With Ethiopian Mentsenot Adane and Behailu Assefa missing from the spot kick, Kara managed a 6-4 aggregate victory to join the group stage that brings together 16 sides in to four groups.
Tesfahun brings the ordinary to extraordinary, celebrates 10th Anniversary of Netsa Art Village
Tesfahun Kibru’s exhibition officially opened on Friday March 20, 2018. The exhibition that is being held at Yucca House located in Bole Rwanda was attended by artists, art enthusiasts and diplomatic community.
Tesfahun is well known for creating something amazing out of everyday things that people tend to consider trash such as metal scraps and discarded plastic. His work, unusual, in many people’s eyes, has left its own identity in the local art scene.
“Tesfahun is one of the most unassuming yet obvious; ingenious yet humble; prolific and passionate artists in Ethiopia. His work is more than up-cycling, re-engineering and re-invention and much more akin to the notion of Afro or Ethio-Futurism; in that he is focused on the Future of Ethiopia and fields questions on humanity’s position in relation to the then and now, nature and the environment and the ebb and flow of identity. His work is the definitive convergence of art, industry and innovation through human relations and channeling of natural and super natural forces to create expressions of everyday people,” stated Dr. Desta Meghoo, from who curated the exhibition.
The exhibition featured different types of metal sculptures, paintings that used rust as paint and works of art that incorporates tire and rubber.
“Paintings such as Identity Symbol and Symbol of Rust connect the dots of the past to present through a distinct dialect of symbols. His invention of rubber art creates a new medium that offers the rare application of fine art. The Improvisation Series is filled with fresh, free amorphous and cultural expression that will prove to be timeless,” Meghoo said.
While the exhibition celebrated the 10th anniversary of Netsa Art Village, the opening session also saw the celebration of Capital Newspaper’s 20th Anniversary celebration. Capital, throughout its 20 years of existence has always supported the arts and culture sector.
“One of Capital’s missions is to promote societal values which include different forms of artistic expressions. It hence, fills me with extraordinary pride and personal satisfaction to be part of Tesfahun Kibru’s incredible artistic journey, culminating with tonight’s show, fittingly themed ‘Convergence of Art, Industry and Innovation’,” said Teguest Yilma, Capital’s Managing Editor.
The exhibition is set to stay open for the public for three weeks.
The Status of book Clubs
Reading is a very challenging exercise that we may not see as a constant culture. It is naïve to assume that one may read every day for guaranteed, once someone is labeled as a voracious reader, ‘critical thinker’. Well! One thing that we don’t have to miss is the fact that someone who is a reader tend to be a moody and unstable reader. That is why society has to institute norms and mores to revitalize and motivate a reading culture. On this regard, we have to see the role of book club.
Book clubs helped to ignite discussion on published materials may be through public or clandestine debate. Critiques and counter critiques are provoked in this endeavor, the published book will not remain to be unpopular. Moreover, the more book clubs engage on appraisal of a published product, the better likelihood will be re-publication. Above all, the reader will be stimulated to be updated and sometimes for better re-reading.
Indeed, some established book clubs play the role for the literary market as like what interest groups do for politics. They have the capability to determine which books should be read for different age set and social category. It is quite critical as now a day’s we are nationally grappling with books and production chant for unity and Ethiopiannity. In her study published in 2008 dubbed as “The Representation of Authors and Illustrators of Color in School-Based Book Clubs”, Jonda Mcnair identified that the remarkable role of student based book clubs helped to filter books whose characters may portray racist and scaremongering among kids.
To her credit, Oprah founded the Oprah Book Club, which is often credited with reviving Americans’ interest in reading. Her generosity and philanthropic spirit are legendary. Her fan base couldn’t leap a page of a recommended book unread once she recommended the book in her show. Ideally, what the celebrities has to determine is a grandiose custom to the best of societal advancement, perhaps as an iconic model. In contrast what the celebrities is lessoning the generation for undesirable habits and the lousiness. Against this backdrop, what Oprah used to do is a template among the celebrities. It is sacred to try to inflame reading habits of the generation.
Arguably, the 60’s and 70’s generation of Ethiopian revolution started as a book club. Perhaps, the books they discussed were not entirely to go to the appraisals of those political books. Instead the discussions of those days were more or less aimed at to see the congruence between the empirical conditions in the then Ethiopia and requirement for Marxist oriented ‘social revolution’. Latently, Ethiopian revolution was the high time for flourishing of the reading culture.
Coming to the recent experience, to their credit one can’t miss the role of ‘Music Mayday’ to inflame a dried reading culture in our fair society. Several books got the attention of the public once ‘Muzic Mayday’ conducts discussion on books. Popularly, their engagement got the front pages of newspapers in the fair capital.
In a similar vein, in August 2017, HoHe awards recognized the role of Shenkute where his career of teaching and radio journalism mixed with a pragmatic visionary. To our surprise, he had a mobile library utilizing mule and cart in very deep remote areas. If truth be told, his self made effort made him an icon for the flourishing of reading culture in Ethiopia. It is mesmerizing how bold enough and courageous to act where Shenkute harbors his vision in such society amid of lot of societal inertia. One can imagine how far it would be difficult to embrace such selfless moral responsibility with all the requisite price to pay.
Conclusively, it is timely to prescribe nationally we need to have several town-based , region based and national book clubs so as to create the necessary platforms ensuring the reader may have informed selection of books.
