The Smoke of the Nile

The crashing waterfalls of Tis Abay, near Bahar Dar, Ethiopia

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Meet the 150,000-times-great Grandparents

August 29th 2007
Right, first things first. Leave your stereotypes of Ethiopia at the door. Get those images of barren deserts out of your head. Eliminate any lingering images of starving, hungry villagers. Try to blink away that picture of Addis Ababa as a small collection of mud huts, surrounded by goats. Ethiopia has bad PR officer working on its international image. The reputation and the reality couldn ... read more

Africa » Ethiopia » Amhara Region » Bahir Dar

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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