In the spirit of pan-Africanism town planners in most African cities decided to honour the birth of African nationhood by naming streets after one another's countries. So here in Addis Ababa where the climate feels more like Melbourne than Monrovia, and you have to check your 100 birr tourist map to ensure you are still on the African continent, there is a familiar pattern to the street names. Ghana St becomes Cameroon St, Kenya St turns into Congo st, while Equatorial Guinea st is the extension of Jomo Kenyatta and Haile Selasie St (named after two of the greatest pan-African heroes). But it's not just the pollies who win the favour of the town planners, there is also Bob Marley square and Keninesa Bekele St (named after the two-time defending Olympic 10000m champion) In the true spirit of African functionality, few of the names actually mean anything, The Chad Embassy is not on Chad St, it is on Zimbabwe St, The Burkino Faso embassy is on Ghana St. Rwanda appears the only embassy considerate enough to locate themselves on a street named after them. Good on them I say.
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