Showing posts with label People. Show all posts
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Sunday, February 1, 2015

Meet the Surma and Mursi People

Could you imagine a life without Wi-Fi, smartphones, washing machines, sewage systems, medicine and all the other benefits of science and tech progress? Even if it’s difficult to picture somebody living like this today, some isolated tribes who have not been touched by the “modern era” still exist. This is the case of Surma people, a collective name used to identify the Mursi, Mekan and Suri tribes. These people live in Southwestern Ethiopia, near the Sudan border, a place also called “the African Tibet” because of the distance from any sign of modernism.

Surma or Mursi People
Surma or Mursi People
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