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Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule, with the exception of the 1936-41 Italian occupation during World War II. In 1974 a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (wh... [read more]
Unique among African countries, the ancient Ethiopian monarchy maintained its freedom from colonial rule, with the exception of the 1936-41 Italian occupation during World War II. In 1974 a military junta, the Derg, deposed Emperor Haile SELASSIE (wh... [read more] Blog: Qat-ing with the World's fastest runners
Date: November 7th 2008
Obviously I'm not very good at this. It is 3pm in the afternoon, or 9 o'clock Ethiopian time, and I am sitting slouched over with two branches of qat plant in my hands in a smoky, dim room off Bole Road no bigger than a typical dingy African single bedroom encircled with enough colorful blinking Christmas lights to give me a minor epileptic seizure. I'm trying to keep the wad of plant between my r ... read more
Date: November 7th 2008
Obviously I'm not very good at this. It is 3pm in the afternoon, or 9 o'clock Ethiopian time, and I am sitting slouched over with two branches of qat plant in my hands in a smoky, dim room off Bole Road no bigger than a typical dingy African single bedroom encircled with enough colorful blinking Christmas lights to give me a minor epileptic seizure. I'm trying to keep the wad of plant between my r ... read more
