Unleashing Africa's Moment

A statue by the artist @brunocesarcatalano from his series “Les Voyageurs”, symbolizing the void created by leaving one’s country, one’s family, one’s people for another life. Each person appears to be walking forward while a large portion of the torso is missing. The suitcase often becomes the visual link holding the separated pieces together, suggesting that identity is carried through memory, experience, and whatever a traveler chooses or is able to take. #foodforthought

The names of the 14 provinces of the Empire appear over them; and precisely over the location of Ejersa Goro, in the region of Harar - the birth place of His Majesty - a comet star is put, with a clear reference to the biblical Star of Bethlehem that guided the 3 Wise Men to visit the newborn Christ.

Evangelist Billy Graham visited Ethiopia in 1960, The following are excerpts from his autobiography "JUST AS I AM" "His Majesty granted permission for meetings, but he was also giving our Team the use of the royal stadium. Furthermore, he planed to order all schools to be closed and allying people, including his grandchildren to go to our meetings." "His majesty also received me at his palace, which is not, I discovered, a place for fainthearted. Scattered around the palace grounds - and greeting me as I walked in - were a number of domesticated lions. They were not on lashes, but at least they were well enough fed not to want to nibble on a visiting American evangelist." Billy Graham with Emperor Haile-Selassie at the first World Congress on Evangelism, Berlin, Germany, October 31, 1966. Credit to Billy Graham Evangelistic Association

Dear family and friends, this is my new book. Prospects for Adaptive & Sustainable Livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples of Africa https://www.cambridgescholars.com/product/978-1-0364-1354-5

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