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Article: Honey money. (Eritrea)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- October 1, 1995
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Jacky Sutton reports on the resurrection of Eritrea's ancient art of beekeeping as a way out of poverty for the country's demobilised freedom fighters.
No honey, no money: No trees, no bees exclaims a new T-shirt on the ancient streets of Asmara, the capital of Eritrea. The T-shirts are part of an effort to revive a centuries old tradition of honey production which decades of `modernisation' and war have almost completely destroyed.
Leading the drive is a cooperative of demobilised guerillas from Eritrea's successful war for independence from Ethiopia. These largely unskilled and ill-educated fighters print the T-shirts and sell them along with wax ...
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