Ethiopia is a special country in Africa and the whole world because of its historical background, colorful cultural endowment and tenacity of its people. It boasts of being of one of the oldest civilizations inhabited by the Kingdom of Aksum people and it hosts some of the fossilized early man known as *Lucy*. The Ethiopians people often refer to their home country as The Cradle of Humankind.

Another difference is that Ethiopia is the only African country that had not been colonized by Europe and which defeated Italy in the battle of Adwa in 1896. This maintained its independence during colonial period and makes it one of founding member of League of Nation and United Nations.

Ethiopia is famous for its religious background, as the Ethiopian state has been recognized as the World’s first christian nation, and being home to one of the oldest existing christian organisations – the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewehdo Church. It is also important in Islam, because people who supported Prophet Muhammad used to seek asylum in Medina. That it is however a little different from other religions is evidenced by other facets such as the employment of a special type of script called Ge’ez and the Ethiopian calendar which is about seven to eight years behind the calendar commonly used in many parts of the world popularly known as the Gregorian calendar.

H SAFELY, ethnolinguistically the country is highly diverse, and physically, Ethiopia has features like the Simien Mountains, the Great Rift Valley, the Afar triangle and the Danakil Depression. It is the source of Blue Nile, necessity for civilization all over the world for centuries. Traditionally, it is associated with coffee production, and social meals with communal grains like Injera served with different stews symbolizes identity of the society.

The city of Addis Ababa is home to the African Union and Kofi Annan, the United Nations, which puts ethiopia in the center of pan africanism. The biological diversity that ranges from the low lands to high altitudes and the celebration of the customs as well as heritage regardless of any difficulty that the country may encounter make Ethiopia rare and most important in the world today.