“In reality, in the event the good girl reaches thirteen, the woman is currently too-old to get partnered,” announces Nebiyu Melese, 54, Tihun’s wiry farmer dad. “I understand many people state this can be uncivilized. But they dont alive right here. So just how do they really courtroom?”
Tough, opinionated Melese, their unfortunate-eyed partner, Beyenech Alem, forty five, in addition to their eight youngsters are conventional Amharas in manners. It plant millet and you will corn, and you can bed alongside its goats during the a sand-walled family plagued that have presses and you will fleas.