In May 2019 Borkena reported that Ethiopian musicians Seleshi Demissie and Tsegaye Eshetu were preparing new work framed around a blunt question: what happened to Ethiopia?
Artists often use songs and collaborations to name political anxiety when formal politics feels stuck, and this pairing put that mood into the pop calendar of 2019.
Kept as culture archive, the musicians’ question dates how popular voices tried to describe national confusion during the early Abiy Ahmed years.
Sources: Borkena