{"id":278232,"date":"2019-06-06T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-06T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMicGh0dHA6Ly93d3cudGFkaWFzLmNvbS8wNi8wNi8yMDE5L3JpdmVyLXNwaXJpdC1pbi1uaWxlLW1hZ2F6aW5lLWZyb20tZXRoaW9waWEtdG8tZWd5cHQtcGhvdG9zLWJ5LWNoZXN0ZXItaGlnZ2lucy_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-27T11:18:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T15:18:12","slug":"chester-higginss-nile-photos-linked-ethiopias-blue-nile-culture-to-egypt-and-nubia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/278232","title":{"rendered":"Chester Higgins\u2019s Nile photos linked Ethiopia\u2019s Blue Nile culture to Egypt and Nubia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June 2019 Tadias Magazine republished, with the photographer\u2019s permission, Chester Higgins Jr.\u2019s Nile Magazine essay and photographs tracing the Blue Nile from Ethiopia\u2019s highlands through Sudan and Egypt toward the Mediterranean.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-353196\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Chester Higgins\u2019s Nile photos linked Ethiopia\u2019s Blue Nile culture to Egypt and Nubia\" \/>\n<p>The piece used the Amharic idea of \u201cchildren of the river,\u201d people whose travel and farming depend on river water, and it placed Ethiopia\u2019s Blue Nile inside a longer cultural story that also includes Nubia and Kush, which Egyptologists and archaeologists were then studying more closely under the sand.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as culture and arts archive, the Tadias feature dates how a major diaspora photographer framed Ethiopia\u2019s Nile heritage for international readers in mid-2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadias.com\/06\/06\/2019\/river-spirit-in-nile-magazine-from-ethiopia-to-egypt-photos-by-chester-higgins\/\">Tadias Magazine<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>River Spirit in Nile Magazine: From Ethiopia to Egypt Photos by Chester Higgins at Tadias Magazine&nbsp;&nbsp;Tadias MagazineThe following article and photos are published here with permission of the photographer, Chester Higgins, Jr. See below for det&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":353196,"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-278232","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\/2021\/03\/Tourism-Ethiopia-702103-1714-54-07.jpg?fit=788%2C538&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1anC","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278232","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=278232"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755061,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278232\/revisions\/755061"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}