The envoy said she had hosted the ceremony for Indian women at the embassy and that's how the idea of running the cafe emerged. "I discussed Ethiopian culture over coffee with the Federation of Indian Women's Associations (that promotes cross-cultural exchanges between Africa and India)," she said.
The Ethiopian Cultural Centre and the coffee cafe were inaugurated in the embassy's premises here earlier this week. For the moment, the ceremony will be held twice or thrice a week and the coffee will be free but will be priced at some stage. On its part, the Cultural Centre will showcase Ethiopia's handicrafts, art and performing traditions, as also host discussions on Ethiopian culture.
Located in the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia, with over 91 million inhabitants, is the most populous landlocked country in the world and the second-most populated nation on the African continent. Dating to the 2nd millennium BC, Ethiopia is one of the oldest locations of human existence known to scientists and is widely considered the region from which Homo sapiens first set out for the Middle East and beyond.
