Playwright Banna Desta has brought to life an often-overlooked ancient African civilisation in her latest work - a compelling audio drama about an increasingly tyrannical queen and her scheming twin ...

She was born in the US to a mother from Tigray in northern Ethiopia and a father from Eritrea - the very areas that were at the heart of the old Aksumite empire. "The impulse was really just ...

Through North Africa, Christianity was embraced as the religion of dissent against the expanding Roman Empire. In the 4th century AD the Ethiopian King Ezana made Christianity the kingdom's ...