{"id":276132,"date":"2019-05-15T10:34:26","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiXGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lm5hbWliaWFuLmNvbS5uYS83ODU3MC9yZWFkL0hhd2ktJUUyJTgwJTkzLUV0aGlvcGlhcy1maXJzdC1mZW1hbGUtc3VwZXJoZXJvLWNvbWlj0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-19T12:54:05","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T16:54:05","slug":"etan-comics-launched-hawi-often-called-ethiopias-first-female-superhero-comic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/276132","title":{"rendered":"Etan Comics launched Hawi, often called Ethiopia\u2019s first female superhero comic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2019 coverage of Etan Comics highlighted Hawi, a bilingual English\u2013Amharic series created by Beserat Debebe\u2019s all-African team and widely described as Ethiopia\u2019s first comic starring a female superhero.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-601742\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Etan Comics launched Hawi, often called Ethiopia\u2019s first female superhero comic\" \/>\n<p>The story follows Ethiopian-American Ement Legesse, who returns toward Ethiopia and must rescue her kidnapped mother while discovering flame-linked powers inspired in part by the historical figure known as Queen Yodit Gudit. Debebe had earlier published Jember as an Ethiopian male superhero title and said he wanted young readers to see themselves as people who can act.<\/p>\n<p>Comics are not only entertainment. For diaspora and local readers they are a soft archive of belonging, history, and language at a time when many Ethiopian stories abroad still arrive only as conflict news.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as culture and arts reference, Hawi marks a dated creative milestone: Ethiopian myth and modern migration put into sequential art for a Horn audience that rarely sees itself in that form.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.okayafrica.com\/ethiopias-first-female-superhero-comic-hawi-is-here\/210048\">OkayAfrica<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.namibian.com.na\/78570\/read\/Hawi-%E2%80%93-Ethiopias-first-female-superhero-comic\">The Namibian<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Hawi&#8217; \u2013 Ethiopia&#8217;s first female superhero comic&nbsp;&nbsp;NamibianBeserat Debebe, the creator of Ethiopia&#8217;s superhero comic &#8216;Jember&#8217; and the founder of Etan Comics, brings to life the country&#8217;s first female superhero comic, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":601742,"comment_status":"closed","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-276132","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\/2026\/09\/culture-national-theatre-1280.jpg?fit=1280%2C720&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19PK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276132","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\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754787,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276132\/revisions\/754787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/601742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}