{"id":270476,"date":"2019-03-21T13:22:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T17:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=270476"},"modified":"2019-03-21T13:22:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T17:22:26","slug":"ethiopia-gets-its-first-female-superhero-in-comic-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/270476","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia gets its first female superhero in comic book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A comic has featured an Ethiopian female superhero for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>Hawi depicted a female superhero named Ement Legesse in one of its recent releases. In the comic book, Ement is a young woman living in American with her mother.<\/p>\n<p>According to the storyline, Ement Legesse pushes her mother to visit Ethiopia. Her mother was not pleased with the idea initially but later agreed. When they visit, Ement&#8217;s mother is abducted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The fact that Hawi is Ethiopian means a lot to me,&#8221; 29-year-old Beserat Debebe, the creator of the comic book and founder of Etian Comics, said. He added that it is important for there to be Ethiopian and African superheroes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I wish I had seen an Ethiopian superhero growing up,&#8221; Debebe said. &#8220;I would have embraced my ability to make a difference earlier and acted on it.&#8221; [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okayafrica.com\/ethiopias-first-female-superhero-comic-hawi-is-here\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comic has featured an Ethiopian female superhero for the first time. Hawi depicted a female superhero named Ement Legesse in one of its recent releases. In the comic book, Ement is a young woman living in American with her mother. According to the storyline, Ement Legesse pushes her mother to visit Ethiopia. Her mother [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":270480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/img.png?fit=2000%2C1000&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-18mw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270476"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270482,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270476\/revisions\/270482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}