Andrew McCarthy describes his time spent in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia with private mobile outfit Wild Expeditions.
‘No one here thinks beyond the Omo.’ Sometimes called the cradle of mankind given that the earliest found Homo sapien fossil was found here, the Omo Valley is made up of over 20 tribes, many of whom are semi-nomadic and depend on traditional methods of agriculture to live. McCarthy’s piece is visceral and honest and outlines a way of life little known and under pressure due to climate change, development of dams in the rest of the country and increase in population of what is the second most populous country in Africa.
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