The city goes a 4th day without power and 3rd day without running water Addis Ababa: A city stuck in the Dark Ages It seems many tourists and journalists are complaining Addis Ababa is becoming unbearable to visit.
And it's not only the regime's draconian repression or its misguided policies to blame, either. It appears the city residents have adopted a culture of prejudice and rude behavior towards visitors, too. Recently, Nick Ashdown, a journalist and photographer working in Addis Ababa, tweeted a number of complaints about Addis. No power for 3rd day, no water for 2nd day. Colleagues incommunicado. However, his descriptions of walking around with an Ethiopian "Habesha" woman in the city is eerily similar to how black men dating white women were treated in s United States.
Among other names, Addis residents called his girlfriend a "slut" and a "traitor". Even better: A Fereng with a habasha girlfriend. Yet, according to Nick, even these ladies of the night are treated better than an Ethiopian woman seen with a white man.
Possibly the meanest city on Earth. Addis reminds me of there.
