Over the past year, what activists call “resistance songs” have flooded a tiny corner of the Ethiopian internet. Since December 2016, multiple popular Ethiopian musicians aligned with the country's growing opposition movement have been arrested and jailed. However, over the last few months the ‘resistance songs’ have grown louder and angrier in tones and have gained a much larger following. And of late, even Amharic singers who have not sung overtly political songs have joined the chorus resistance songs. On YouTube, channels carrying montages of protest images linked to the resistance songs regularly garner hundreds of thousands of views.

Source: Ethiopian News July 19, 2017 13:30 UTC