Word: ethiopia
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Refreshingly, this eight-part survey portrays Africans from the mountains of Ethiopia to the mines of Lesotho as ordinary folks, not victims. It's visually rich without exoticism, curious without condescension...
...lungs, and his doctors told him a year ago that he had just months to live. But with the inexorable will that has made him an empire builder, he pumps his latest project, a swashbuckling novel featuring a miracle-working naif who brings God's word from Ethiopia to California. Bill Bright is a late convert into the exploding field of religious potboilers, but an enthusiastic one. "I've written many books about the Holy Spirit," he says cheerfully, "And this will probably be read by many times more people." He knows that if only one thousandth of the people...
...West's growing enthusiasm for African objects that has placed many of them in jeopardy. Most of Mali's archaeological sites, including graves built into the cliffs along the World Heritage-listed Bandiagara escarpment, have been looted. Ethiopia is struggling to protect its oldest silver Coptic Christian crosses and medieval manuscripts. Since 1970, illegal traders in Kenya and Tanzania have carted off hundreds of vigango, or Swahili wooden grave markers. When fighting erupted in the Somali capital of Mogadishu in 1991, one of the first casualties was the National Museum. Within weeks many of its prized exhibits, including ancient Egyptian...
...region of Ethiopia called the Middle Awash, some 140 miles northeast of the capital of Addis Ababa, is a hot, harsh and inhospitable place--a rocky desert punctuated by tree-lined rivers, the occasional lake and patches of lava that are slowly being buried by sediments flushed out of the hills by the torrential rains that come along twice a year...
...This message comes from a well-traveled man who has seen his home country of Ireland torn apart by perpetual warfare, has spent time in Ethiopia volunteering to aid starving children, and has recently lived through the suicide of his good friend, INXS singer Michael Hutchence. When Bono writes about the pain and suffering in the world, he is not a distant artist, speculating at what is out there. He has been in the trenches, and has seen the horror firsthand...