22 juin 2023
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
Loren F. Bliese, « Movement along the Wadis and Rivers of Uwwa Woreda Afar Region », Centre français des études éthiopiennes, ID : 10670/1.79t47d
It is commonly said that the Afar often consider as their land, any area where the jujube tree (kusra), bearing red cherry-like fruits, is found. Two of these trees grow on the knoll where the first school was built in 1965 at Bilu, in the Uwwa Woreda, on behalf of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus – and formerly headed by the author of this article. Apart from the famous kusra tree, this paper shows that rivers and wadis still actively condition the past and present social dynami...