
He is carrying a stack of barrels in the part of Merkato known as Berbere Tera, or pepper market.
Merkato, one of the biggest marketplaces in Africa, has a lot of different things to showcase to residents of Addis Abeba that visit it for their shopping. This also means goods have to be transported from place to place. One way of doing this quickly is to have porters carry as many goods as possible at once, like this individual. He is carrying a stack of barrels in the part of Merkato known as Berbere Tera, or pepper market.