Family Life: Winds of Change Stir the New Flower of Africa ; Oxfam Campaigns Officer Eliot Whittington has Left His Midlands Home to Spend Three Months in Ethiopia. It Promises to Be a Challenging Time, Not Least Because of the Culture Shock

Birmingham Post › June 19, 2004

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I can still remember the end of my first real day here -the sense that this was the start of something new and fantastic.

I had just taken a walk on a Sunday afternoon and I was completely overwhelmed. I've been transplanted from Birmingham, a city I know and love, to my new home for the next three months - Addis Ababa, capital of Ethiopia.

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Family Life: Winds of Change Stir the New Flower of Africa ; Oxfam Campaigns Officer Eliot Whittington has Left His Midlands Home to Spend Three Months in Ethiopia. It Promises to Be a Challenging Time, Not Least Because of the Culture Shock

This city has been called the democratic capital of Africa, it hosts the new African Union Parliament. It is also the capital of a country that is possibly the poorest on Earth. The city is five to seven times bigger than Birmingham but feels strangely rural -th...

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