Ethiopia, ten images

For: Javier Brandoli (text and photos)
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Ethiopia was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa that seemed to me to be manifestly different from the rest. An ethereal border between two worlds, two cultures, two religions. An ancestral kingdom of the mountains that maintained its pride of knowing itself different. Their poverty put all men to shame in the decade of the 80. Today, which is the country in Africa with the highest sustained growth in the last decade, their misery is still obscene, archaic, but there are windows of hope. Addis Ababa is a garden of cranes and flimsy wooden scaffolds from which thousands of buildings grow. North shows its history with the high forehead, knowing that their kings were great and that his story is beautiful. The south is primtivo, their ancestral tribes are, frozen in time. The people of Ethiopia, the three times I was there, I found girls, rogue, generous, educated and too much weight in their eyes. There was a certain sadness, a field alive and quiet and a free cities.

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