I didn't know just a random rolling out of the camera captures the life of a city! This is a wonderful video. I have memories of this period and those places. Thanks for sharing.
The taxis are still blue and the public buses are still yellow and red. I think minute 12:27, where the portrait of Mengistu is, i think that is Meskel square. That area is so different. You got the museum there ,tall modern buildings, especially that tall one that by meskel square the overpasses,all kinds of stuff that a modern city has. If that is Meskel square; it has changed so much. Now in Addis you see tall rise building, modern buildings everywhere and many are going up as I text this. Also there seems to be way more people now in the streets walking and driving. Bole Airport is modernizing. Addis has metro, it has big road like the West ,for example Ring road and Airport Rd. Highways like Addis-Sidama Express way. It also has rendezvous and overpasses too. They are building a big modern soccer stadium. The city is super big in people and territory. Now there is condomiuns being buit at the outskirts of Addis; where Addis meets Oromo region. In the West of Addis like West of Bole Airport thete are building new real estate passing the Goro area. Goro area is whete the Addis-Adama Express way starts. That highway takes you to Adama. But even pass that,where Goro is,all the way to summit Condominiums the city extends. The city and the country are moving forward that is for sure. May God continue to bless Addis and all of Ethiopia. Once you go to a place like Ethiopia, like me being from the US ,once you go and experience the culture ,there is no going back. These people are good people. These are real people not like in the US. These people really got culture and tradition and values. But make no mistake these people will bravely defend their country and homes.
The small Lada Taxis are being planned to gradually to be replaced with Avanza cars or other ratheer bigger cars and increase the meter taxis around so I heard.Mnay Thanx for your kind words.Greetings from Ethiopia!!
@@MrLowrevia that is sin its a law god didn't create only men. Even science help people understand why God didn't ask for woman. Women die for it men don't unless u that person non-experience
i was 9 at the time of this video but recall everything. My father used to take us for hair cut at the barber near the Lottery place. I also remember the Arada building when it was under construction. wow easy to navigate from point A to B but again it was 20 million population vs 100 million population
i think it is very historical and such videos should be promoted to post on youtube especially for young generation like us to know what this country looks like back...
starting from '9:41 Ethiopin Television and Radio under construction.It took more than a decade to finish.5:10-5:15 Madonna and Rambo pictures.from 5:25 on Building Unconstruction of the Arada Building scene.It has on the entrance which says 1986 G.C
imagine how lucky the next generation is because we are recording our day to day life in hd cameras After 100 years the next generation can look back and enjoy our videos Probably from mars
This video was made just after coupe attempt against Mengestu's regime which was may 1989. Two years later, after 17 years dictatorship Mengestu left the country.
even if this was not a perfect Ethiopia, it is much better compared to the current horribly divided Ethiopia were innocent are dying in every corner of the country.
we didnt know in about two years time a mafia group will take the power and take all the innocenous of this loving people! I am sure all the kids playing football on that field dont care about which conner of the country you came from!
Why do you love this guy he stole land form my grand father and grand mother these people that he stole for were the sons and daughters of people that fought Italian war in 1935-1941 and were kind people and saints he is a thief he has no right to steal land form people and he was an atheist he didn’t believe in a God.