It’s not every day you see a London DJ drop everything and move to Ethiopia’s farmland, but that’s exactly what happened in 1999 when Ras Paul hopped over to Shashamene, a dusty city 125 miles from Addis Ababa. His mission was to find his “true home,” beyond Babylon’s cold hustle. But two decades later, that utopian dream is colliding with real-world Ethiopian politics.
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🔅 Of Rasta Dreams and Ethiopia’s Realities
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It’s not every day you see a London DJ drop everything and move to Ethiopia’s farmland, but that’s exactly what happened in 1999 when Ras Paul hopped over to Shashamene, a dusty city 125 miles from Addis Ababa. His mission was to find his “true home,” beyond Babylon’s cold hustle. But two decades later, that utopian dream is colliding with real-world Ethiopian politics.