Man’s 25 years on film chronicle Ethiopia’s struggles

BBC
Wednesday, 8 July 2009

For 25 years British documentary maker Charles Stewart has filmed Ethiopian man Aklug Adarge. The BBC’s Adam Mynott reports on one man’s life, beset by the challenges of famine and conflict, which is emblematic of the lives of so many Ethiopians.

In 1984 at the height of the worst famine in living memory thousands of people clinging to life in the highlands in the centre and north of Ethiopia were resettled.

Some were forcibly moved, others went voluntarily.

One young man Aklug Adarge was amongst those who decided to leave. He lived with his mother, sister and younger brother near the village of Arb Gebaya. Read more at BBC.