On September 9th, Ariana Austin and Joel Makonnen swapped vows during a lavish Maryland wedding but their love story isn’t an ordinary one–it’s a royal one. Makonnen happens to be the great-grandson ...

ADDIS ABABA, Jan. 27 (Xinhua) -- After learning about a planned mass wedding event in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, through social media, Henry Kinda and his fiancee Roth Kinda eagerly decided ...

Before I actually went to Ethiopia, my only mental images of it came from the devastating famine there back in the 1980s. The one that led to a permed Sally Struthers begging for 70 cents a day from a ...

The couple exchanged vows on July 13 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, before a second day cultural reception called a “Melse” to enjoy Ethiopian food and dancing Alison Conklin Photography Rahel ...

Hundreds of couples gathered in Ethiopia's capital on Sunday to take part in a traditional mass wedding ceremony, the first such event in a decade, according to the organisers and participants.

Egla Taye and Olana Olana threw summertime tropes to the wind, marrying in an intimate cranberry-and-gold themed wedding that paid homage to their Ethiopian heritage. Bonus: the couple donned ...

In human life, transition from one status to the other is a common phenomenon. There are rituals that are performed in the time of transition. Rite of passage is among these rituals. It is a ritual ...

Hair braiding tells a story. Of womanhood. Of age. Of what it means to be Habesha and find your way back to rituals that almost disappeared. For Brehan, a 37-year-old bride-to-be in Dallas with both ...