ABYSSINIAN DIARIES ( A useless trip tale )
Having my camera -one of those wonderful gadgets that freezes time- in my hands, I wanted to check how real is the description of a country such as Ethiopia: a wonderful land exciting and amazing, with a leafy green and volcanic depressions where life is barely possible. Luxury glass towers surrounded by oceans of humble tin houses, churches digged in rocks and legendary holy cities of Islam, ancient orthodox rites and tribal ceremonies that haven’t changed since the Bronze Age.
Nothing is further from reality. Nothing exotic. Are their tribal dances much different from our popular festivals?
No strange rites. Are their scarifications stranger than our plastic surgery? Are their celebrations based on fermented sorghum different from our drunkenness?
No extraordinarily good or excessively bad people. Do human and divine laws have, here or there, prevented human being from being what they essentially are?
