NAMED AFTER A high lookout over Lake Awassa and the Sidamo Mountains, Tabor Cultural Association is a non-governmental organisation based in Awassa, the capital of the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR) of Ethiopia. This fertile heart of the African Rift Valley, which extends from Turkey to Mozambique, is home to some of the oldest agricultural traditions in the world. These are living traditions: some fifty-six tribal communities are recognised in south-west Ethiopia, living by everything from montane terraced farming to forest hunter-gathering, and from desert pastoralism ...
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