Ethiopia is an amazing place. It has its own calendar – seven years and seven days behind ours. It also has its own clock – still with two sets of 12 hours, but they run from dawn to dusk and dusk to dawn, rather than midnight to midday and midday to midnight. So, 1am here is [...]
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September 10, 2009
Ethiopia: Green shoots of optimism
When I first went to Ethiopia I only knew three things about the country. It’s famous for marathon runners, it suffers from periodic famines (or at least it did when I was growing up), and its leader used to be Emperor Haile Selassie, who was made into a God by the Rastafarians in Jamaica, believing [...]
August 20, 2009
Ethiopia: Duff and Krul, temes gen fetary
In 1992, I was in Liberia when Newcastle began their triumphant Barclays League Championship campaign. Eleven league games into the season – as the situation in Liberia deteriorated and rockets began to be shot into the city – Newcastle still had a hundred per cent record. I was evacuated on the eve of their 12th [...]
August 6, 2009
Ethiopia: Diamond in the Dark
“Almaz” means diamond and Almaz is a student in one of my classes. She wants to be a pilot. When she was a toddler, her father killed her mother. He was put in prison – either after sentence, or while the case proceeded – but whichever way it was, while he was inside, he killed [...]
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