Addis Tag

December 17, 2018

Daytime hyena

Yesterday, a hyena broke into a kindergarten in the middle of the city. The children spotted him in the morning; still and scared beneath a large bush in the playground - and they scattered, screaming. My brother-in-law, an engineer also known for a good eye with a hunting rifle, was called in to shoot the animal. “But I left it to

‘When it rains on one person it drips on us all.’ — Ethiopian proverb

In the five months my daughter has been learning to talk, she has learnt the word rain but not the word shower (or, for that matter, flush). At least every afternoon, rain falls on us hard and fast with a dramatic storm that lasts well into the evening. Often, we wake to the sound of gushing pipes outside our window