others have to sift through the pieces. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, nebil: addis ababa. anthony: admit it. you hear the name ethiopia and you think starving children with distended bellies. you think dust and famine and despair so awful, you frankly don t want to even think about it anymore. but take a look. addis ababa, capital city of ethiopia. a cool, high altitude, urban center that will both confirm and confound expectations. fueled largely by direct foreign investment and a returning ethiopian diaspora eager to be part of the new growth, things are changing in addis. it s one of the fastest growing economies in the world . it s not the first time the place has gone through a growth spurt. in the 1950s, emperor hai
All it took was one skateboard. Musician Israel Dejene was working in Sweden when he fell in love with skateboarding and brought a board back to his neighborhood of Shiro Meda, on the outskirts of Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, at the foot of Mount Entoto. “It was only one board,” he says via … DOGTOWN, ETHIOPIA Read More » The post DOGTOWN, ETHIOPIA appeared first on SPIN.
In this case, at a vacant bus stop. marcus: they re dogtown, man. they are next generation of dogtown in africa, man. anthony: a few years back, a couple of ethiopians who had been living abroad returned to addis with some skateboards. today there are a couple hundred skaters in ethiopia and more on the sidelines waiting for their chance, waiting for a board, waiting for a pair of sneakers. it s funny though, because, like, skater boy culture came from white southern california suburban and you can pretty much track all of skater culture back to like one parking lot. marcus: yeah. anthony: so what s coming out of this parking lot? there are no skateboard shops in ethiopia. none. they have to come, all of them, from abroad. marcus: woo! nice!