Ethiopia Lecture
Ethiopia Lecture
Tuesday, 30 June 2009
My short trip to Australia to see family and friends is over, and I am now back in my office in Hong Kong, attending to various administrative documents and demands that must be completed - with urgency, as always, of course!
Ethiopia is a little known and fascinating country, with strong contrasts between the more developed, Orthodox north and the less developed south with its vibrant mix of evangelical Christianity, Islam and tribal animism - and as shown in the photo above, some of the most basic taxi services that anyone could possibly imagine!
To give you a flavour of the lecture, and as a refresher to those who attended, a gallery with a selection of some of the images I used in the lecture can be seen HERE.
If you are interested to read a day-by-day diary of my travels in Ethiopia last year which inspired Sunday’s lecture to the Geographical Society, click HERE and go to the links for Day 1 to Day 16 (from the bottom of the page).
A woman at the market in Dimeka, Ethiopia, one of the several hundred photos I showed in my lecture to the Geographical Society last Sunday.