ADDIS ABABA - are celebrating their own, but not to Ethiopians lack the enthusiasm to welcome the arrival of the new millennium. An event celebrated seven years later than in most other countries on the planet. The cause of these celebrations are due to delayed Ethiopian calendar which is still based on ancient Egyptian astronomical calculations and also inspired by the Coptic calendar, Hebrew, and Julian.
Celebrations. The capital's streets are packed with people celebrating. Addis Ababa is illuminated by light beams of red, yellow and green (the colors of the national flag), while giant screens transmit images of the great concert of Black Eyed Peas, called to celebrate with their sound hip-hop the arrival of the twenty-first century in Ethiopia. The event was also created a new congress hall, near the airport built by a wealthy construction magnate.
A moment tied to tradition. addition to these festivities, unusual and luxurious for a third world country, there are traditional celebrations dell'Enkutatash, the Ethiopian New Year. An opportunity to bring families together and meet from friends, but also a time when groups of girls go from house to house to sing traditional songs. Thousands are goats and sheep were la cena di molte famiglie, insieme al tipico pollo piccante imbottito di spezie.
Un'occasione di rilancio. Si tratta anche di un evento attesissimo nel Paese africano, costato mesi e mesi di preparativi. il governo etiope vuole sfruttare infatti l'arrivo dell'anno 2000 per rivalutare l'immagine dell'Etiopia nel mondo. Per rimpiazzare la vecchia stereotipata idea di una nazione piagata da fame, guerra e povertà , con un quella di un paese che si dà da fare per migliorare. "Per noi etiopi si Profiling can forget the suffering and look forward to a better future ", explains Bereded Seyoum, head of the organizing committee for the celebrations of the new millennium. A real tour de force that led the Ethiopian Government to set in motion a massive publicity machine. To invite tourists and overseas Ethiopians to return home to celebrate the event, but also to urge people to contribute to the success of the big party. Every night in fact, immediately after the most-watched edition of the news, followed a short film in which the government urged the Ethiopians to plant trees, clean the yard and make it more colorful and pleasing their dwellings. Meanwhile, however, in many urban areas of Ethiopia thousands of people continue to suffer hunger and poverty.
At last they entered the third millennium, with a calm that most Mexican Ethiopian, but they arrived.
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