Travelling to the Cradle of Human Life in the Time of Global Pandemic

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”

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”