Mursi woman

We have seen pictures of women wearing lip plates but we didn't think that we would ever see it with our own eyes. We thought it was a practice that went extinct in early 20th century.

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Ethiopia - 2005

December 27th 2005
From Lucy, to Haile Gebreselassie via women with lip plates We also travelled before we joined TravelBlog. We have started to digitalise photos from those pre-TravelBlog trips and we are planning to write about some of them. We will write when we have the time and time is usually scarce so these blog entries will be far in between. As of now we have been averaging one per year. ... read more

Africa » Ethiopia » Southern Nations Region » Jinka

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

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