Accessing historical Ethiopian print media can be challenging due to preservation hurdles, but several avenues exist for researchers today. Physical Archives in Ethiopia
A significant portion of the archives exists only as scattered PDF scans on personal academic websites or Academia.edu. Researchers who traveled to Addis in the 1990s and 2000s photographed or scanned specific years. These are not centralized but can be found by searching: "Addis Zemen" filetype:pdf combined with a specific year (e.g., 1974). addis zemen newspaper archives