{"id":277572,"date":"2019-05-30T12:59:10","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T16:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiUmh0dHBzOi8vYm9ya2VuYS5jb20vMjAxOS8wNS8zMC9ldGhpb3BpYW4tbXVzaWMtcXVlc3Rpb24td2hhdC1oYXBwZW5lZC10by1ldGhpb3BpYS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:17:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:17:50","slug":"musicians-seleshi-demissie-and-tsegaye-eshetu-asked-what-happened-to-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277572","title":{"rendered":"Musicians Seleshi Demissie and Tsegaye Eshetu asked what happened to Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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?<\/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=\"Musicians Seleshi Demissie and Tsegaye Eshetu asked what happened to Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as culture archive, the musicians\u2019 question dates how popular voices tried to describe national confusion during the early Abiy Ahmed years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/05\/30\/ethiopian-music-question-what-happened-to-ethiopia\/\">Borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two prominent Ethiopian Musicians question : What happened to Ethiopia?&nbsp;&nbsp;borkena.comSeleshi Demissie and Tsegaye Eshetu, notable personalities in the Ethiopian Music industry, are planning to come up with new work. &#8220;What happened to us?<\/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-277572","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-1acY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277572","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=277572"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754984,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277572\/revisions\/754984"}],"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=277572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}