አእምሮ – The First Newspaper in Ethiopia in Amharic

አእምሮ

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አእምሮ Newspaper was established during Emperor Menelik’s time. The first ever issue was distributed in and around 1889 and was written in the Amharic language. The newspaper was weekly and the first ever issue had 24 copies. It was the fisrt modern newspaper in Africa by African language.  After Amharic, the second earliest modern style newspaper in an African langauge was in Swahili.