Abandoned Market Area in Jimma

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Date of image

1991

Creator

Lewis, Herbert S.

Place

Ethiopia

Source

University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries, Africa Focus: Sights and Sounds of a Continent; African Studies Collection

This market area was a thriving growing area with every section occupied by business people in the late 1950s. At that time the Italians wanted to make Jimma the capital city, but the area was destoyed by the derg after they came into power.

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