The historic neighbourhood of Piassa, at the old heart of Addis Ababa, is being taken apart. Workmen are uprooting pipes, felling lampposts and chiselling at façades. One building is being dismantled ...

Fikir Getaneh Haile has previously received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. A spate of demolitions radically transformed one of the oldest parts of the Ethiopian ...

I sometimes try to picture when Addis Ababa truly wakes. Is it when the first cars start honking, or hours earlier, when the streets still belong to those who ...

Ethiopia’s capital city is undergoing a transformation. Addis Ababa is being redeveloped as part of Ethiopia’s broader economic ambitions. Mega road projects, ambitious housing developments and ...