With the growing po pularity of music video clips sil1ce the 1960's and afterwards in the Ethiopiarnmedia landscape, audiences have been able to be exposed to a substantial number of Ethiopianrnmusic video clips. A sizeable number of these audiences constitute of young audiences of AddisrnAbaba. The role of T raditional Music Video C lips in Promoting the C ul ture of Natio ns andrnNationalities of Ethi opia among Youth in Addis Ababa: the Case of Ethi opian TclevisionrnEntertainm ent Prog ram endeavors to explo re how the young al,diences of Addis Ababa, in thernmiclst of the ir lived rea li ty, make meaning about the Nations an d Nati o na lities of Ethi opia culrurernidentity out of the images of the Traditi onal or Cultural Ethiop ian music video cl ips. The studyrnalso attempts to investigate how the image makers po rtray the Ethi opian Nations andrnNati o l1:1iti es' c ultu re d1d also investigates how the mus ic compose rs contribute fo r the essence ofrnimage creating. Using a focus group d iscussion and in-clepth individual in terviews, this studyrnmakes an effo rt to investigate how the young audiences make mea ning o ut of the cultural imagesrnof the C ultural Ethiop ian music video clips. All the same, drawing on a qualitative content analys isrnon purposive ly selected music videos, the study at tempts to investigate how the image makersrnrepresent the images of Na ti o ns and Natio nalities of Ethiopia in their productions of music videornclips.rnT he fi ndi ngs of the i"Csca rch dC!l1o !1 st r;ltc the newly phenomc no n in the Erhiop i;ll1 hi story.rnTradi tio nal music video d ips have hoomed recently this boom confe rs most Ethiopians a prospectrnto be acqu;linted with each o ther . Th is imme nse occlirre nce is pu lling o ff a relll