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Ethiopia. Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region. Omo Valley. Keyafer. Soizic Triennot (L) and Jean Marc Chetrit (R) wear both a glossy red plastic clown nose and talk to a man from the Bena tribe. Marc Vella is a french musician and a nomadic pianist. Over the last 25 years he has travelled with his Grand Piano in around forty countries to celebrate humanity. Creator of “La Caravane amoureuse” (The Caravan of Love) he takes people with him to say “I love you” to others and “lovingly conquered” their hearts and souls. Banna, Bana, and Benna are other spellings for the Bena people which are mainly agricultural people. The Omo Valley, situated in Africa’s Great Rift Valley, is home to an estimated 200,000 indigenous peoples who have lived there for millennia. Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples' Region (often abbreviated as SNNPR) is one of the nine ethnic divisions of Ethiopia 12.11.15 © 2015 Didier Ruef
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