The meaning of life is the connection between people. The new Gibe III Damn starting up now spells the end of a way of life for 18 tribes and over 200,000 people in Southern Ethiopia. In the place of alluvial flood plain farming, come miles of sugar and cotton plantations supporting international agribusiness. The Omo tribes will likely supply the labor for this project. The people I photographed told me, “God is changing our river…” but the River is being changed by the Ethiopian Government, while the rest of the world turns a blind eye.
