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TALES EN-ROUTE


TALES EN-ROUTE

On a wide stretch of asphalt that looks like it has seen better days, two women that do not use the “light travel" memo, rest by the roadside beside oversized bundles of cabbage meant to be sold out but didn't.  One sits forward, face buried in her hands, performing what can only be described as a full-body reset. The other leans into the stacked sacks, fast asleep in a posture that suggests she gave up negotiations with fatigue a while ago. Their clothing, bright green, pink, and deep blue, cuts through the dull concrete like a quiet act of defiance, turning the roadside into an unplanned splash of color in an otherwise exhausted scene. The contrast is striking: life insisting on brightness while the environment sticks stubbornly to grey.

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IMPERIAL WITNESS

Excavated earth now surrounds the gilded bronze Lion of Judah Monument near Legehar (La Gare) railway station on Ras Mekonnen Avenue, as preparations get underway to move the monument 60 metres backward to make way for road-widening works. Nothing on the monument itself will change; it will be carefully relocated intact, continuing to face the Addis Abeba Municipality Office. Standing atop a black granite pedestal bearing the likenesses of Ethiopia's last four emperors, the Lion was sculpted by...


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WHEELED EVOLUTION

A bike lane once foreign to Addis Abeba is now busy serving its intended purpose, and then some. Along African Avenue, beside the walls of the Skylight Hotel, a man rides a small electric scooter while another pushes a two-wheeled wheelbarrow loaded with cement sacks along the same lane. Intended exclusively for cyclists, the lane has become an unlikely meeting point for two forms of wheeled transport, leaving one to wonder whether the rules call for a citation or applause. The scene captures a...


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STREET BALLERS

Children kick a ball around the parking lots surrounding Entoto Park, turning an otherwise quiet morning into an impromptu football pitch. One boy, wearing the jersey of St. George Football Club, one of Ethiopia's most decorated teams, is a reminder that football remains very much alive. The government has built football fields across the city, yet it is still common to find people playing in streets, parking lots and open spaces. Perhaps the fields are too costly for some, or perhaps football i...