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Ethiopia has to be one of the most densely populated countries in Africa. The Simien Mountains National Park is no exception! Although you have to pay an entrance fee as a foreigner, and an armed escort is compulsory, the national park is just the same as the area outside its boundaries. Every square foot of farmable earth has crops growing on it and the Gelada Baboons are so tame that they walk through the villages.
This view is taken from the Kambow hill in Amdewerk.
This the market place of Amdewerk but on a not market day.
The free open air public toilets of Amdewerk. It is possible that the site will be use to construct a...
This is a view on Amdewerk city and on the valley. This pictures is taken from the Seferu hill. This ...
View from the road of Amdewerk to Sekota that show the location of the future Guesthouse of Amdewerk.
One of Hawzen and Wikro's magnificent semi monolithic rock hewn churches, the Daniel KorKor Church
Located in Labibela, Ethiopia, the church is on a pedestal base in order to compensate for the varyin...
The Church of St. George is one of eleven churches hewn from solid rock down into the ground. It was ...
The Church of St. George is one of eleven churches hewn from solid rock down into the ground. It was ...
Welcome to Africa, AKA the motherland! Check out African Internet Radio while you're scoping the panoramas.
The earliest fossil of the homo sapiens family (human beings) was found in Ethiopia, dating back more than 200,000 years. Compared to this length of time, even the "ancient Sumerians" from 6000 B.C. are drooling toddlers.
Let's mention a few African heroes you may have heard of, for inspiration in the face of the continued economic inequality and violence which plague Africa today: Nelson Mandela, first democratically elected President of South Africa, who fought against apartheid and served 27 years in prison while advocating freedom and peace. Haile Salassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, who resisted Mussolini and the fascist Italian invasion of WWII, and who is worshipped as an incarnation of God by the Rastafari movement. Kwame Nkrumah, first Prime Minister of Ghana, advocate of uniting Africa in Pan-Africanism. Fela Kuti, inventor of Afrobeat music, who declared his home to be an independent state, ran for president of Nigeria, and to whose funeral ONE MILLION PEOPLE came to pay their respects.
In June 2001 the African Union was formed, consisting of 53 African States organized, like in the EU, around common economic and political development.
Text by Steve Smith.
