How to Kill An African Bird - Ethiopia Observer

How to Kill An African Bird - Ethiopia Observer

I don’t need a hypnotist to remember my first memory as a child. It was in my grandmother’s bedroom, and I was sitting on my great-grandmother, Abiye’s, lap- she was feeding me bread soaked in sweet tea. Abiye was listening to my grandmother, who was reading her prayer book aloud for her mother’s benefit. The prayer book is the same one my grandmother read every morning until she passed – St Mary’s Prayer at Golgotha.  It is customary in the Eth…