(Photos taken by Vale) TIME
"The European and the African people an idea of \u200b\u200bthe time completely different, and I consider him relate so opposto.Nel the European concept of time exists objectively, independently of man, outside of it, and it 'quality with' measurable and time lineari.Secondo Newton and 'absolute "The Absolute, true, mathematical runs itself 'and if' virtue 'of its very nature, equally and without depending on any external factor." The Europeans feel slave of time, and it 'conditional, and' his subject through and tutto.Per exist and function must comply with its strict laws and immovable, his strict principles and his regole.Deve respective dates, deadlines, and day orari.Si moves only in the gears of time, without which it can 'esistere.Tra man and the time there is an irresolvable conflict that inevitably ends with the defeat of man: the time annihilates man. "
" The African native, instead, want the time so completely opposto.Per them it is a category much more 'flexible, open, elastic, soggettiva.E' the man who affects the shape of time, on its course and ritmo.Il time and 'even something that humans can 'create: in fact the existence of time manifests itself through the events, and that an event takes place or not depends on man. The time is manifested as a result of our action if we cease our action or not even take, and it sparisce.Il time 'an entity' inert, passive and mainly conditioned by man.
The exact opposite of the European way of thinking. "
(Ebano_Ryszard Kapuscinski)
That makes no sense to ask:
" What time does the bus for Awasa "the answer and ':
"when all seats are taken!"
[Password: "TOMORROW"]
"These people have a capacity 'to wait absolutely incredible"
(Ebony)
UNITA' SPIRITUAL
"... the characteristic of this civilization 'that most' hits, namely 'its impermanence', the temporary ', the lack of continuity' materiale.La mud hut built yesterday, today there ' more '. The fields, planted three months ago, now lie incolti.L' unique continuity 'that lasts, holding together the individual communities', and 'continuity' of racial traditions and rituals, the worship of ancestors are deeply felt that, more 'than from a material or territorial community, the African and' joined together by spiritual communion with his fellows. "
(Ebony)
ARRIVING IN ADDIS ABABA
"I am versed in tin huts"
(I go to the capo_Sergio Ramazzotti)
ROAD ADDIS ABABA-STEM
"We meet the truck: and 'left the road and turned' upside-down on one side by three hundred kilometers from capitale.Il load and 'upside down on the grass. Passengers Tugging vedono.Qualcuno when we have the bloody face "
(I go to his head)
250 km south of Addis Ababa
... and 'a vast plain crossed by valleys and dirupi.Durante the rainy season in these deep gorges and fast flowing rivers tempestosi.Al out above the stand out here and the' three thousand metri.Sono mountain high mountains of eroded rock, color Bronze and copper, from the tops so 'smooth and flat that could serve as natural airports.
... the mountains are green, high, silence stupendi.Ovunque profondo.Ma just stop, sit on the side of the road and listen to warn of high voices in the distance and monotone.Sono the songs of children on the slopes surrounding children who collect twigs, the cattle guard, cut grass for their animals.
Meta 'of Africans and' still below the fifteen anni.Tutti armies are full of children in refugee camps and the majority 'consists of children, children working in the fields, the market traded the house bambini.A and 'the child touches the most part' important responsibility 'to get water.
... and here comes the plastic tank. Miracle! Revolution! First of all, and 'relatively cheap, but the essential' his leggerezza.Inoltre there are any measures that also the small child can 'bring home a few liters. "
(Ebony)
RIDE THE (CHOCOLATE) WATERFALLS
" We climb the bank, and clinging to the roots sticking nails in soft soil "
(I go to his head)
... under the watchful eye of baboons and scimmiepuzzola ...
" Swallowed by dense vegetation, shaken by the URL pure, primordial River, was born at the exact spot where the rainbow "
(I go to his head)
Shashamane
"Here I am again in an engraving by Dore 'for Dante's Inferno, colored by Van Gogh and by adding sound effects and thumping olfactory: bus invented soldering iron huts and files of seats on the truck bodies, taxi full of scoppiare.E then heads to the point where dozens of stalls rossa.Tutti wood planted on the ground screaming. "
(I go to his head)
NEGELLE
"The driver and 'launched to sixty kilometers per hour (our driver ... 90 km / h. ) on a road that would appreciate a rally driver as a gym, and when the wheels encounter a pothole the passengers' heads painfully banging on the ceiling, the windows and against other teste.LA track makes its way with difficulty through the trees of a forest green smeraldo.Antichi wooden bridges, bent under the weight of daily traffic, exceed ditches and swamps. "
(I go to his head)
THE PERIOD OF THE GREAT RAIN
" ... in the middle 'way we are surprised by a shower unprecedented violence . The large drops of water fell on us like meteors in a minute and we are completely soaked. "
(I go to his head)
STEM RURAL HOSPITAL
"There are women who wander barefoot up and down 'the corridor, rubbing his eyes, boys and girls with sex proudly exposed to the fresh morning air and men indolente.L 'smell of humanity' and 'pungent'
(I go to his head)
THE ROAD TO ALAMGANA
"Together with the antennas enormous insects, worms, hairy moths flying wildly upset ... I have the feeling to slip more and more 'deep within the bowels of the world "
(I go to his head)
Injera
"I stop to meditate on how to eat africano.Mani posate.MAni instead of plunging into the food, are caught in the mouth, are thoroughly cleaned from finger to finger shiny lips and come back to dive into the food and 'property' Joint Combined with other mani.Un brothers making ritual that feeds the strangers. "
(I go to his head)
ADDIS ABABA-MILAN
"A plane will take me 'in Milan in a few hours, and someone I will use' of chilled wine while under our wings indifferent scroll hills, jungles, rivers, lakes, savannah lions, snakes, spiders, crocodiles, the palaces of dictators, churches, huts, mosques and missions, the drums of war. "
(I go to his head)
Special thanks to:
mission Stem (Consolata Missionaries)
Stem rural hospital
The village of lepers
Abba Renzo
Abba Abba Gabriel
Lejandro
The Sister Gabriella
Francisco
Jona
Abdul
Vale
Lele
Alessia
Elisa
"He's climbing the monkey" and his wife
Rucio
Jonas
Edurne
Carmen
Pepe
Catherine
Cristin
Dr. Laura of Awasa
Corrado
Gamacisa
Branu
Bisu
Louis
Ghiandino
Auburn '
James
Peter
Getu
and all the other boys unpronounceable names, which never leaves us alone
All children, especially those hospitalized and their smiles
The zebegna '
The rain
Baboons
The Hyppos
The vehicles
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