so, who is your father? maya: my dad was my hero and everyone s hero in this i mean everyone, but my brother could explain a little bit more. petros: he was a local chief and also a member of the supreme, or the highest court, you can say. during the haile selassie period he was engaged in more innovative and experimental and mechanized farm. with, during the communist anthony: yes. petros: period. you know, something unexpected happened. anthony: in 1974 emperor haile selassie was deposed and the very unpleasant general mengistu and a hard-lying communist regime called the derg took over the country. as in mao s china, all agricultural property was taken over by the state and broken up into small parcels. petros: everything what my
anthony: in 1992, addis emerged from the stifling 17-year grip of a hard-line old-school maoist regime called the derg. since then, the town has been enjoying something of a musical renaissance. but the story of ethiopian music all the way back to the beginning has been about finding ways to skirt authority, to mock it, even. to say what you want to say one way or the other. the azmari are ethiopia s original freestyle rappers. they ve been around for centuries, voicing criticism, dissatisfaction, dissent, even when others could not. anthony: so, how old?
yeah, guys after work or the farmers. marcus: we re breaking major rules here. maya: and you have all, like, the saints picture there, and we re drinking. marcus: there s a lot of jesus in the bars. anthony: that s the last thing i want to see in a bar. the disapproving gaze of a saint. anthony: in 1992, addis emerged from the stifling 17-year grip of a hard-line old-school maoist regime called the derg. since then, the town has been enjoying something of a musical renaissance. but the story of ethiopian music all the way back to the beginning has been about finding ways to skirt authority, to mock it, even. to say what you want to say one way or the other. the azmari are ethiopia s original freestyle rappers. they ve been around for
hard-lying communist regime called the derg took over the country. as in mao s china, all agricultural property was taken over by the state and broken up into small parcels. petros: everything what my father had, the land, the property, is confiscated. and those who had the authority, they had the chance to work together, to cooperate, or they were enemies. anthony: right. anyone deemed an enemy of the state, and this could be a very dangerously loose definition, but usually and typically included the educated, the well-off and anyone associated with the former government were hunted down, shunned, jailed, harassed and often straight out
so, who is your father? maya: my dad was my hero and everyone s hero in this i mean everyone, but my brother could explain a little bit more. petros: he was a local chief and also a member of the supreme, or the highest court, you can say. during the haile selassie period he was engaged in more innovative and experimental and mechanized farm. with, during the communist anthony: yes. petros: period. you know, something unexpected happened. anthony: in 1974 emperor haile selassie was deposed and the very unpleasant general mengistu and a hard-lying communist regime called the derg took over the country. as in mao s china, all agricultural property was taken over by the state and broken up into small parcels. petros: everything what my father had, the land, the property, is confiscated.