44 pounds, twice a day. That’s what many Ethiopian women have to carry on their backs during most of their lives to have clean water. “Clean water” is more a wish than a fact, since this water comes from hand dug wells and it is untreated and [...]

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I just realized that I’ve been talking about injera for a while, but never posted anything about the main ingredient, teff flour, or more precisely about the grain teff. Teff (ጤፍ ) or “Eragrostis tef” is an ancient grass that originated between 4000 BC to 1000 [...]

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For those who live in London or are planning to visit the city, there are to upcoming exhibitions at The British Museum that seem quite interesting. The first one is called Impressions of Africa: money, medals and stamps and will show images of Africa that illustrated [...]

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Even when Jose Cendón is a “ferenji”, he has been working in East Africa since 2004 and he is now based in Addis Ababa. He’s an Spanish photographer born in Venezuela that has won 1st prize in the World Press Photo Contest in 2007 for his work [...]

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