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Three guesses as to what this guy is doing. It's one of the bizarre scenes in Addis.
A guy would dig up gravel from somewhere, fill up potholes pockmarking
Addis streets after the rainy season, and appeal to motorists to tip him.
When I first saw this several weeks ago, I was amused, touched and annoyed.
I was annoyed that City Hall was doing such a miserable job of doing its job that
people like this fellow had to step in. Of course, I was amused and touched by the
entrepreneurial spirit of this young man. I snapped this picture on the road to Unity
College's Gerji campus, a couple of hundred feet from the Imperial Hotel.

I spotted these three kids sitting on the bridge near Harambe Hotel,
close to the Ambassador Theater. Squatting on the concrete wall of the bridge,
the two girls were braiding the hair of what turned to be a boy. They're street kids,
although they said their mothers are around. The one on the left and the middle are
half brother and sister. I asked the one on the left her name and she replied, "Seble." The
others told her to give her real name (Abeba) and not what she likes to be called.
Her brother said, "You never know, giving the right name is important in case erdata (help) comes."



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