Black man arise!

 

We don’t want to go, but we are coming. We are almost melancholic, the transports, the adventures, the Rastafarians, nice music and nice weather. We have made more than 30 interviews; we have visited so many different people. We have been moving around Addis Ababa like crazy. Lorenzo’s favourite place is the Entoto Mountain, between arat kilo and sidist kilo, and the campus of social sciences, an old palace given from Haile Selassie to the students.

Here we heard a lecture, on the “Rastafarians presence in Ethiopia”, by three Rastafarians from the community of Shashemene, including a sister from Wien, Delphi. The Rastafarian concept of livity, or way of life, is fun, though they seem to be sexist. Their religious foundation is also interesting. Haile Selassie I, is Jah, the lion of Judah. And his divine nature is proved in the Bible (even the anti-Italian battle of Adwa).

and finally, here is my favourite: sister Bethleheme, god bless you sister, Africa unite!