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Growing up, Arega Tekeba's fondest memories involved the feasts his father would prepare for Ethiopia's Orthodox epiphany festival Timkat - the way he would lead their family in song while roasting a freshly-slaughtered sheep. But those memories are now acutely painful.
The now world-famous palace fortress of Fasil Ghebbi in Ethiopia was founded in the 17th century by Emperor Fasil when he made Gondar the capital of his empire.