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How does a city make music? Listen to the beep beep of horns, the rumbling of trains like drums along the tracks, the sounds of dogs and cats, the bleating of livestock, the crashing of goods in the market. Taken together it is a symphony that only a civilization could produce,... Read Full Overview

How does a city make music? Listen to the beep beep of horns (Piiph Piiph in Afaan Oromo), the rumbling of trains like drums along the tracks, the sounds of dogs and cats, the bleating of livestock, the crashing of goods in the market. Taken together it is a symphony that... Read Full Overview

How does a city make music? Listen to the beep beep of horns (Piiph Piiph in Afaan Oromo), the rumbling of trains like drums along the tracks, the sounds of dogs and cats, the bleating of livestock, the crashing of goods in the market. Taken together it is a symphony that... Read Full Overview

How does a city make music? Listen to the beep beep of horns (Piiph Piiph in Afaan Oromo), the rumbling of trains like drums along the tracks, the sounds of dogs and cats, the bleating of livestock, the crashing of goods in the market. Taken together it is a symphony that... Read Full Overview

Addis Ababa became the capital of Ethiopia in the 1890s, when Menelik II became Emperor of Ethiopia and chose a spot for a city to be named new flower. Building houses would take a lot of wood, so the emperor looked for a fast-growing tree. Australia supplied eucalyptus trees... Read Full Overview

Addis Ababa became the capital of Ethiopia in the 1890s, when Menelik II became Emperor of Ethiopia and chose a spot for a city to be named new flower. Building houses would take a lot of wood, so the emperor looked for a fast-growing tree. Australia supplied eucalyptus trees... Read Full Overview