April 2015
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
6h 18m
English
By Jacey Fortin
Exiled Ethiopian journalists perform a traditional coffee ceremony in a shared, cramped apartment in Nairobi. A wave of arrests prompted at least 30 Ethiopian journalists to flee into exile in 2014.
Source: CPJ/Nicole Schilit
At the Lideta courthouse in Ethiopia’s capital city, Addis Ababa, stands a statue of a blindfolded woman holding a set of scales in her outstretched hand—a universal symbol of justice, here cast in metal of pinkish gold and wearing thick braids in her hair.
Not far behind her is a brick-and-concrete building where some of Ethiopia’s most controversial ...