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Awra Amba, a current experiment of utopian socialism with the community values and lifestyle. They fully participate to the institutions and their behaviours comply with the values they defend (At05/64). In the future, it will not be necessarily the case, either if the decision to live here is not recent, or if the members are born in the village: the agreement could be less strong. If today the rare people who disagree leave deliberately the community or are thrown out, will it be even possible if they are more? Won't the children of the current members be perfectly legitimate to stay in their village of origin, regardless of their behaviour? But in our opinion, Awra Amba did not develop any reflexion and mechanisms to deal with the heterogeneity of its members, except the expulsion. Ossification through the myth Zumra, the founder and leader, is almost seen as a prophet, an extraordinary man revered by the community, and whose heroic childhood deeds have no doubt been slightly embellished. So, from the age of four, he allegedly started wondering about unfairness, maltreatment or dishonesty; Atnafu (2005/1) even talks about Zumra's age of three or four years as an historical step in his vision of an ideal society. In our opinion, all that seems rather astonishing and close to a myth. Simultaneously, adults and children idolize Zumra according to Me09/73, which worries him for the future (Me09/80): the death of such a charismatic and influential leader, without any visible successor, poses severe problems to the community. This behaviour could be compared to religious veneration, a widespread phenomenon in the Ethiopian culture. We consider that this attitude is quite dangerous as it is in complete contradiction with the values advocated by the Awra Amba community, which reject veneration of the past or of an elsewhere and look toward the future. The future transformation of Zumra into a secular prophet whose more or less presumed behaviours are more worshiped than the values, and the transformation of an emancipatory project into an uncriticizable myth, leading to ossification, are really liable to happen. The flexible, open, and inventive nature of this running utopia would disappear to the benefit of an almost religious veneration in total opposition with the today project. This raises the question of the values of Awra Amba – which should be maintained as these are essential, and of the behaviours and policies which are the translations of these values at any one time – and which can change. The risk is to abandon critical thinking, which alone will allow the descendants to possibly challenge the social organisation of Awra Amba in order to stay true to their values. Research items Several research topics could allow improving the present knowledge we presented in this report: - Study in detail the history of the community. We have seen that a lot of items are not accurate, even contradictory. Since there are very few written and therefore sustainable sources available, it is urgent to interview the stakeholders still alive. In addition, as most of the historical data provided by the different authors come from Zumra interviews, it is necessary to widen the set of internal witnesses to all of those still living, in order to compare the points of view. Moreover, number of stakeholders and witnesses are external to the community, for instance the people who met the founders of the community in the Amhara region and during the exile, the political or economic leaders with which the community has been in contact, or the neighbours in the neighbouring communities. The first aim is to establish a chronology as accurate as possible; the second aim is to compare the points of view of the various stakeholders and the reasons given to their actions. - Compare the experiment of Awra Amba with the worldwide experiments of utopian socialism, most of them have been listed in the introduction. What are the common features? What is the originality of the Awra Amba community? What can learn Awra Amba from the other 78 / 85
experiments? Conclusion - Most of the values of Awra Amba are not precisely defined (only in a few words), even essential for their lifestyle. It would be useful to study more deeply the values founding the community, by comparing them to the values founding societies and social projects in Africa, in the developing countries as in the developed ones. Because the values are fundamental in the success of Awra Amba, a research into this field could maybe make the values of the community richer. - Study the agricultural techniques to be potentially applied in Awra Amba in order to improve their food production and at the same time to protect their abiotic resources. Even if not being a specialist in this field, we can say that Awra Amba did not make a lot of progress, and surely did not focus on the agricultural techniques, except the present experiments of non-soil farming. A lot of experiments of organic agriculture in the developing countries, including in Ethiopia, could be undoubtedly very useful. 79 / 85
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Robert JOUMARD Awra Amba, a current
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Content Executive summary..........
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Executive summary In line with the
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Executive summary secretive, cruel,
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Introduction The Ethiopian village
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1. Method This work is a synthesis
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