Awra Amba RJ 300612 EN - Contacter un comité local d'Attac
Awra Amba RJ 300612 EN - Contacter un comité local d'Attac
Awra Amba RJ 300612 EN - Contacter un comité local d'Attac
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<strong>Awra</strong> <strong>Amba</strong>, a current experiment of utopian socialism<br />
6.3. Relations with foreigners<br />
International relations are much less developed.<br />
<strong>Awra</strong> <strong>Amba</strong> received the visits of quite many foreigners, as some of the references we used show.<br />
They are some tourists, journalists, activists or NGO workers, official representatives of co<strong>un</strong>tries:<br />
Finland, the Netherlands and the USA have financed respectively a well, the weaving workshop, and<br />
a barn, whereas Austria financed the study of Atnafu (2005/I).<br />
The comm<strong>un</strong>ity knows very little about the rest of the world, despite the presence of <strong>un</strong>iversity<br />
graduates. The lack of openness on literature and on works in the social and human sciences may<br />
contribute to that. Zumra admits that he knows nothing about what exists outside Ethiopia. But he is<br />
ready to explain his ideas everywhere, and eager to present them himself. Zumra talks about him: "I<br />
have an idea I want to spread all over the world. It is the idea of peace, which is essential for all<br />
people, and the idea of the prosperity of human kind. We are all brothers and sisters. We are all from<br />
the same generation, women are our sisters, and men are our brothers." (Jo10b/10)<br />
After reaching its first objective – peace and brotherhood in the comm<strong>un</strong>ity, <strong>Awra</strong> <strong>Amba</strong>'s goal is<br />
now to make his model for society known all over the world, and to spread it everywhere, beyond the<br />
frontiers of Ethiopia (France 24, 2009; Habtamu, 2009; Tervo, 2009).<br />
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