Awra Amba - An Egalitarian Community

From Emergent Africa Sun Apr 20 2014, 23:24:00

In Ethiopia:

A small collective of farmers from a rural part of Ethiopia got together in the 70s and made some fundamental changes to the way they lived. They formed a progressive new village, called Awra Amba.

In a relatively short space of time, Awra Amba has transformed from a handful of people who never went to school, to a self-sustaining, gender-equal democracy, where almost all of the youngsters go to university...[continue reading]via the Guardian

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