Partying Like It’s 1999!

Partying Like It’s 1999! September 11, 2007

In the Millennium Bazaar, a series of market stalls just behind Meskel Square in the centre of Addis Ababa, everything is stamped “2000”. From plastic bowls and key rings to packets of crisps and vases of plastic flowers, all are marketed as millennium specials.

Elsewhere in the world today it is 11 September 2007. But in Ethiopia, which runs on a unique Coptic calendar more than seven years behind the Gregorian calendar, it is a far more auspicious day: New Year’s Eve, 1999.

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Hmmm … I wonder if they’ve stocked up on water, batteries, canned food, ammo, wind-up radios and — oh wait.

Nevermind.


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