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The Ethiopia Issue : April 2002

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The M'Ts Issue: June 2002

The 2015 Issue: July 2002

The Ethiopia Issue: April 2002

This one is about evocation. About fishing into your memories and your dreams, your fantasies and your hardships, your senses and sensibilities. This issue is less ABOUT Ethiopia as about YOU, and what Ethiopia means to you. Perhaps it is just the word, its sound, the way it is written, mispronounced, or its "P" misstressed. Maybe it is a past you would much rather get away from, or a future you feel you have an iron destiny with. Maybe it is a projection of what you consider to be bliss — a sense of community and worth.

Or maybe Ethiopia is an infinite source of inspiration, contemplation, irritation, hey even intellectual masturbation.

Maybe Ethiopia is not an It at all, but a loving motherly she, a stern fatherly he, an immature teenager, an old man holding too fast to his old ways. Maybe Ethiopia is the scent of freshly turned earth, the whirrr of the gossamer-winged kremt awCHi insects, the smoke of Mesqel chibbo hanging in the air, the busy busy busyness of Merkato. Maybe Ethiopia is where you did not know ‘’you’’, and only knew ‘’us’’.

Maybe, just maybe, Ethiopia is where you are right now in Chicago or Toronto, London or Sydney, Accra or Tokyo, Delhi or Rio. Maybe Ethiopia is that irresistible burning in your eyes as you see the flag fly in Olympics and Reggae concerts.

Imagine a past or remember a future or dole out from your present. Sing us your dreams, draw us your poems, paint us the scents that make you go wild, and touch us with your sensation as your mind turns wax to gold.

Words, Pictures, Music, Voices are all welcome.

Evoke something, and get us a masterpiece by March 15th.

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