My Addis Ababa Experience

Its Emezie's birthday 

Have you been to Congo? No! 

Been to Congo? No! 

Real mix of Africans at the airport 

Starting to think west Africans have a similar look 

These people here look quite different 

Smallish with long faces and pointed nose 

Curly hairs all of em 

Not so nappy like ours 

Almost Arab

They never made the slave ship 

No African American look this way 

Hotel buses on arrival 

Very friendly people 

Golden Tulip 

Brown dust just like Enugu 

Smallish Cars too 

Sign posts with English subtitles 

Blue and white taxis 

With overhead carriages 

Techno Mobile phones too 

Not so bright at night 

Kare pharmaceuticals 

Wossi Garments 

Pee buckets by the roadside 

Coffins on display 

Very old taxis 

Wello Seffer 

African Avenue 

The humans here don't need alcohol to get high 

Blown up prices at the glance of a stranger 

I feel like a maga here 

A paying maga 

Heaters at the clubs 

No air conditioners 

Old but very clean hotels 

No air conditioners still 

Yoyl Hop night club 

Construction junk yards 

Orderly queues in turns 

Waiting for commercial buses 

Banks with almost no security 

Multiple slow construction sites 

Unpainted buildings 

Plus two five one 

Roofing sheets as fences 

Dusty and Dusty 

Slant buildings standing tall 

Looking like the 80s 

Surrender night club 

My brother, very old cars 

Good citizens here 

Reconstruction in progress 

Abandoned projects 

Zelalem garage 

Rainbow and spare parts centre 

Girma barber shop 

It's cold out here 

Like it's always harmattan 

Pretty Girls with long hairs

Wearing dull make up 

Very few construction workers 

Doing all the job 

Amin general hospital 

Lifan Motors 

Long distance trekkers 

No fat people here 

Engineers driving unwashed cars 

Happy Ethopian New year 

Blue skies and sunny days 

Ponds and lakes 

Soils of different colours 

Big hills and little mountains 

More apartments and no houses 

Empty train stations 

Long local interpretation 

For a short English sentence 

Golden Lager beer

The story of coffee 

Ramadan porridge of coffee beans 

Dark dried cherries 

Stewed in butter and sugar 

On a barley pancake 

The real Sirri 

The legend of shepherd Kaldi 

And his dancing goats

My Addis Ababa Experience