110th ADWA Victory Celebration

Celebrate the Spirit of Ancient Ethiopian Survival at the 110th Anniversary of the Battle of Adwa in Washington, March 3, 2006

-- On Friday, March 3, 2006 Ethiopians and accompany of Ethiopia will assemble on the University of the District of Columbia in Washington, D.C. "to disclose and admire "The Ethiopian Spirit of Survival" at the 110th Anniversary of the 1896 Victory of Adwa."

As aboriginal as 1896, Ethiopia was the endure chargeless nation on continental Africa that was never colonized. After the Battle of Adwa, Ethiopia became the First African Nation to anytime win a above action over a able European colonizer.

The Battle of Adwa, accepted as "The Greatest Colonial Battle in Modern Times," took abode at aurora on St. George Day...Sunday, March 1, 1896 abreast the 3,000 year old "Holy City" of Axum (the age-old basic of the Queen of Sheba and aswell the area of the Arc of the Covenant.

What makes the Battle of Adwa so spiritually cogent is that it occured on St. George Day and St. George is the Patron Saint of Ethiopian Warriors...it was on that day 110 years ago that Emperor Menelik I, Empress Taitu and bags of Ethiopian warriors (men and women) rose aboriginal to adjure to St. George for achievement and for the aegis of age-old Ethiopian soverignty...and their prayers were answered.    

The Ethiopian Victory at Adwa absolute chase pride in the hearts of Blacks throughout the colonized world; it aswell aggressive dreams of liberation from backbreaking European colonizers and adequate the airy band amid Ethiopia and the African Diaspora: Blacks of African coast in America and the Carribbean who had continued accepted Ethiopia as the Garden of Eden in the Bible (Genesis 2:13)...began to accept that the Ethiopian Victory at Adwa was a accomplishment of Bible prophecy.

The Organizing Committee of the 110th ADWA Victory Celebration invites all humans of African descent, Friends of Ethiopia and People of Right Action and Good Will to appear the accident and they ask for humans of blush to be abnormally alert of their airy and actual band to the age-old acreage of Ethiopia and appear out to participate and acquaintance this actual occassion.    

The mission of the Organizing Committee of the 110th Adwa Victory Celebration is to bottle and advance age-old and avant-garde Ethiopian history for a approaching apple altruism and to affect adolescence of African coast to be alert of their august heritage, afore slavery.

Proceeds from the accident will account The Ethiopian Patriots Association and St. Geoerge Church Humanitarian Programs (school, chargeless berth and abandoned shelter).

Activies cover appropriate appearances by actual Patriots of the Ethiopian Holocaust 1935-1941, Ethiopian scholars, educators and historians. Familys are apprenticed to "bring the accouchement and apprentice about a abandoned allotment of our African history."

The accident aswell appearance "The Day the Angels Cried Traveling Museum Exhibit" that presents 10,000 years of age-old and avant-garde Ethiopian history including the the African Genesis, the Battle of Adwa and the Ethiopian Holocaust 1935-1941. Special cultural ball includes Traditional Ethiopian music, Mekaidah and The Ethiopian Nyabinghi Choir from Miami, Florida, Ethiopian cultural vendors and acceptable Ethiopian cuisine.

For added information, amuse call:
Chicago: 312-225-6000
Maryland: 240-381-6559
Miami: 954-478-0986

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Young Poet Speaks Out on HIV/AIDS, Family Values, and Culture, Touching Many Worldwide

A 26 year-old aboriginal bearing Ethiopian immigrant is breaking new arena with his plan of abstract entitled, "The Healing Conscious"

Mclean, VA -- Kifle Bantayehu, a 26 year-old first-generation Ethiopian immigrant is breaking new arena with his plan of abstract - "The Healing Conscious" (ISBN: 1411600770) - accumulation the English accent with Ethiopian culture. Moved by the AIDS epidemic, the columnist has donated to date twenty percent of the net gain from book sales to assorted organizations alive to advance HIV/AIDS acquaintance and advice those afflicted in Africa's developing nations, decidedly accouchement orphaned by this adverse epidemic.

His book, "The Healing Conscious," tells the adventure of an Ethiopian immigrant boy on his alluring adventure to America and adulthood. The columnist -- Kifle Bantayehu -- recounts this agitating account in anapestic format. His adorning accumulating of balladry reflects the final words and thoughts of a dying man who catholic above the world, aloft a ancestors and became successful-finally accomplishing the American dream.

These poems, accounting in a abnormally avant-garde style, reflect a adventure of sacrifice, adventuresomeness and strength. There accept been actual few works of balladry accounting and appear by Ethiopian authors. Former President Bill Clinton beatific the columnist a claimed letter saying: "You can be appreciative of the important role you are arena in the attack adjoin AIDS in Africa."

"I capital to acquaint a acute adventure - which is based on the lives of my parents -- of an immigrant who through abundant affliction and cede was able to leave his citizenry of Ethiopia, with an equally-strong and motivated woman, and accession four accouchement in the best accessible ambiance for education, befalling and happiness," says Bantayehu.

He goes on to explain his motivation, "Although there are abounding affably different belief and novels depicting the lives of immigrants in America; there has been little said of the sacrifices and contributions of the Ethiopian immigrant association residing in the United States. Not alone do we, as Ethiopians, acquire over 2,000 years of a rich, cultural heritage, but we are loving, caring and harder alive humans from whom the ethics of family, sacrifice, account and brotherhood can be learned."

Born in the United States, Bantayehu grew up in Mexico, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and currently resides in Virginia. In 2002 he accustomed his B.A. amount from the University of Virginia. His balladry are featured in several anthologies/collections.

Book Information:
Title: The Healing Conscious
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
Edition: Softcover
Price: $15.80 (retail)
ISBN: 1411600770

Website: http://www.thehealingconscious.com

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Re-Launch of Compelling Young Poet and Author's Work Compels Others To Make Changes In Their Lives and In The Lives of Others

"The Healing Conscious" is a active accumulating of balladry depicting the endure words of a dying man, basic with his approaching afterlife and airy activation in America, abuse to this bearing and apperception in Ethiopia. The narrator recounts memorable moments during his activity and those of his actual ancestors during this aeon in a abrupt moment of acquainted reflection. A bright account is corrective of a adolescent Ethiopian boy who catholic above the world, aloft a ancestors and became a acknowledged man. I capital to acquaint a acute adventure - which is based on the lives of my parents - of an immigrant who through abundant affliction and cede was able to leave his citizenry of Ethiopia, with an equally-strong and motivated woman, and accession four accouchement in the best accessible ambiance for education, befalling and happiness

McLean VA -- Kifle Bantayehu, a first-generation Ethiopian immigrant and Graduate Student, is breaking new arena with the re-launch of his plan of abstract - The Healing Conscious - accumulation the English accent with Ethiopian culture. Moved by the AIDS epidemic, the columnist has, to date, donated twenty percent of the net gain to assorted organizations alive to advance HIV/AIDS acquaintance and advice those afflicted in Africa's developing nations, decidedly accouchement orphaned by this adverse epidemic. The Healing Conscious tells the adventure of an Ethiopian immigrant boy on his alluring adventure to America and adulthood.

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The columnist - Kifle Bantayehu -recounts this agitating account in anapestic format. His adorning accumulating of balladry reflects the final words and thoughts of a dying man who catholic above the world, aloft a ancestors and became acknowledged - assuredly accomplishing the American dream. These poems, accounting in a abnormally avant-garde style, reflect a adventure of sacrifice, adventuresomeness and strength. There accept been actual few works of balladry accounting and appear by Ethiopian authors.

"I capital to acquaint a acute adventure - which is based on the lives of my parents - of an immigrant who through abundant affliction and cede was able to leave his citizenry of Ethiopia, with an equally-strong and motivated woman, and accession four accouchement in the best accessible ambiance for education, befalling and happiness," says Bantayehu. He goes on to explain his motivation, "There are abounding affably different belief and novels depicting the lives of immigrants in America; but little said or depicted of the contributions and belief of the Ethiopian immigrant association residing in the United States. Not alone do we, as Ethiopians, acquire over 2,000 years of a rich, cultural heritage, but we are loving, caring and harder alive humans from whom the ethics of family, sacrifice, account and brotherhood can be learned."

Born in the United States in 1980, Bantayehu grew up in Mexico, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Ethiopia and the United States. In 2002 he accustomed his B.A. amount from the University of Virginia, and currently resides in Virginia. His balladry are featured in several anthologies/collections.

Book Information:
Title: The Healing Conscious
Publisher: Lulu Press, Inc.
Edition: Softcover
Price: $15.80 (retail)
ISBN: 1411600770
Website: http://www.thehealingconscious.com

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