Flipboard<p>Mahmoud Ahmed is a national icon of Ethiopia, a musician who rose to prominence during the time of Haile Selassie, and whose songs are known by every generation, though he hasn’t released a new track in decades. Now, he’s retiring, and <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@thecontinent" class="u-url mention">@<span>thecontinent</span></a></span> spoke to him days before his final concert in Addis Ababa. Here’s the interview — writer Maya Misikir suggests listening to it accompanied by Ahmed’s most famous track, “Tizita,” (sometimes known as “Tezeta”) which is a song about nostalgia. </p><p><a href="https://continent.substack.com/p/i-would-be-happy-to-die-on-that-stage" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">continent.substack.com/p/i-wou</span><span class="invisible">ld-be-happy-to-die-on-that-stage</span></a></p><p><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Africa</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Ethiopia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ethiopia</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/MahmoudAhmed" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>MahmoudAhmed</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Music" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Music</span></a> #<a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tezeta" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tezeta</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Tizita" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Tizita</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Newstodon</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>NewstodonFriday</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>FollowFriday</span></a></p>