Sonic Youth Gossip - View Single Post - I am curious, what exactly do you all know about Ethiopia?

!@#$%! · 02.20.2008, 03:29 PM

i like the injera and the lentils with berbere.

i know italy tried to colonize it for a while & eventually failed. fucking mussolini.

i know the ethiopian jews are real jews, despite of what some people will say.

i know ethiopian coffee is great-- coffee probably was "discovered there".

i know aids is pretty bad there.

this guy i know adopted a kid from an ethiopian orphanage-- the mother died of aids.

i know they've been fighting the eritreans, but they used to be one country.

i know decades ago they had huge famines, so "ethiopian food" was something of an oxymoron.

i've seen their alphabet which looks pretty cool.

i know the rastas worship haile selassie, who was overthrown by communists, and then eventually the communists were gone but i'm not sure when.

other random facts like that.

edit: oh, abebe bikila was ethiopian-- i've seen movies of him running, he was amazing

my grocer across the street was an eritrean, but his parents were 1 ethiopian 1 eritrean, forget which one. he told me about eritrea stopping the ethiopian advance for the red sea.

02.20.2008, 03:29 PM	#4
!@#$%! invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: mars attacks Posts: 42,729	i like the injera and the lentils with berbere. i know italy tried to colonize it for a while & eventually failed. fucking mussolini. i know the ethiopian jews are real jews, despite of what some people will say. i know ethiopian coffee is great-- coffee probably was "discovered there". i know aids is pretty bad there. this guy i know adopted a kid from an ethiopian orphanage-- the mother died of aids. i know they've been fighting the eritreans, but they used to be one country. i know decades ago they had huge famines, so "ethiopian food" was something of an oxymoron. i've seen their alphabet which looks pretty cool. i know the rastas worship haile selassie, who was overthrown by communists, and then eventually the communists were gone but i'm not sure when. other random facts like that. edit: oh, abebe bikila was ethiopian-- i've seen movies of him running, he was amazing my grocer across the street was an eritrean, but his parents were 1 ethiopian 1 eritrean, forget which one. he told me about eritrea stopping the ethiopian advance for the red sea.
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