This series of photographs, made in Addis Ababa during a month’s stay in the beginning of 2016, the time of Timkat, the AU summit and of the protests against the Master Plan, brings to view locations which hold particular historical significance: institutions, seats of organization and social foundation which refer to Haile Selassie’s legacy and allude to the present through perpetuity. Spaces in which questions between and about tradition and modernization, education, state and church relations, UN presence, and Pan-African solidarity keep on reverberating.

All images ©Yiannis Hadjiaslanis