Today on 2oth August 2021, I stepped for the first time on the Ethiopian soil, the ancient land where human beings walked on two legs 3 and a half million years ago. It is in Ethiopia where several hundred pieces of fossilized bone representing 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensisContinue reading “Travelling to the Cradle of Human Life in the Time of Global Pandemic”
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Protected: Reise fever
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Protected: The brook would lose its song if you remove the rocks
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When you lift your head the world looks different
When I told my friends and colleagues of my mission to Ethiopia, I received two kinds of responses. “You must be crazy, it’s a dangerous place, people are dying there of hunger and disease”. Generally, people think of Ethiopia as a land of barren deserts and starving people. However, another reaction was: “How lucky, IContinue reading “When you lift your head the world looks different”
Origins of Coffee
“Ethiopia scarcely receives more than a sentence or two in the histories of coffee and the Kafa region – the place that arguably gave everywhere outside of Ethiopia the name for the drink. Kafa is the home to the worlds’ original coffee culture, yet it remains virtually unknown”.
Preparation Perfects Execution
Before the actual mobilisation of any of my international assignments I had done a great deal of preparation. In fact, I consider preparation as a major part of the mobilisation process. I always turn to these trusted tools and resources
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