 Ethiopian kids ham it up for the camera |
So far, I've been in Ethiopia for ten days. In that time I've been robbed, pickpocketed, knocked down by a car, poisoned, electrocuted and otherwise hassled. But apart from these minor inconveniences, this country (the last in the world to run on the mediaeval Julian calendar) comes as a real education. Ethiopia has its own religion, a non-colonial history (except for the brief Italian occupation in 1937-41), and a cultural life-support system that could come from another planet.
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