By Hilena Bayeh: The fact that more and more Ethiopians are putting ink to paper or typing away on the keyboards of their laptops and computers to produce books is turning out to be both good and bad. Good because our literature (in Ethiopian languages) and also in English can develop, our stories can be told, a heritage left for the coming generation. And bad because writers have become scribes like olden times, scribbling the praises of the power that be, spreading official lies as truth and retelling or recycling travesties of history. Read More…