Africa and 'the ancestral cradle of the human being. Africa: a large area at least ten times in Europe, 50 states that are home to more than 10000 2000 languages \u200b\u200band dialects, 700 million people ranging from fatalism endogenous and exogenous pietism.
The Africa of shared guilt, slavery and colonization, the big men fathers today's masters of entire nations, denied the genocide and failed states , the scourge of AIDS and children soldier.
Black Africa is often portrayed that all points of view, or the opposite mythologized without objectivity of the great number of patients that calls Grill africafilia terminal state.
I never believed in the dichotomy, and this wonderful and long summer will allow me to get rid of another big tapestry Manichean, that of the black continent, if I even hoped to snatch some shade, I have to point to the heart.
And for many the heart of Africa is the only country on the European colonialists winner (against an Italy at Adowa in disarray), the residence of the Queen of Sheba and later the legendary Prester John, the land on which our oldest ancestor is found.
I leave for Ethiopia tomorrow I'll get to Addis Ababa on Tuesday morning, in the middle of the rainy season.
By Jaka, run in the summer of 2008 from Cuba, is expected to forty days to savor, share, take full advantage of telling without mediation.
My depart from Addis Ababa Ethiopia, but will move soon to the plateau of the historic circuit, continue towards the Muslim east, finally come to the endless savannahs in the South populated by tribes of hunters and gatherers. All this crossing inhospitable deserts where faranj (white man) is not always welcome, on mountains, which spurs lurk Coptic monasteries, lakes where crocodiles gather colonies of the Nile.
In short, the adrenaline will be a cornerstone of the journey, but without wishing to risk accepting the idea that Ethiopia is not Iceland.
The first trauma is already a major blow: Novel by Benjamin Button are all younger than ten years rasandomi shave for hygiene reasons, and I have yet to accept my appearance teenager found.
But it will soon go into the background to understand why Africa's priorities will be Africans, carrying a priceless treasure trove of oral culture. As I once told a dear friend from Ghana, in Africa dies every time an elder is like burning a library.
But the Romans - possibly ignoring - they wrote on the maps at the continent under the Mediterranean hic sunt leones : there are only the lions.
declare war on the dichotomy of the millennium, and I dive from Tuesday nell'Etiopia that will help me to understand a little 'of this huge mosaic of peoples, colors and stories.
In the ancient heart of black Africa.
A hug Amharic
Tommy
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