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Ethiopia | AA Gill | Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa

Ethiopia has always been in a state of flux, of decay and of rebirth, none of it easy. The famines that so caught western attention were only one part of a murderous history

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Ethiopia | Jeremy Seal | Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa

You don’t so much adjust your watch in Ethiopia as reconstruct notions of time measurement from scratch. The Julian Calendar puts the country back seven years and eight months, making it 2000 at the time of writing

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Hotel Taitu | Eamonn Gearon | Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa

Named in honour of the Empress, the Taitu is striking, if silent, witness both to a century of Ethiopian history and colonial hopes and ambitions for Africa

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Not Smoking in Ethiopia | Barnaby Rogerson | Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa

The miraculous is seldom far from the surface in Ethiopia, even in smoke-filled bars

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Selassie Come Home | AA Gill | Ethiopia, Addis Ababa, Addis Ababa

Yet if you shift the eyeline of history from its well-oiled western axis and look up from the hot, ancient south, Selassie is a monumental, titanic figure

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