Marian Dodds (right) with Ethiopian university instructor and gender project team member Ato Kedir at Madda Walabu University, about 430 km southeast of the capital, Addis Ababa.

Adventures in Ethiopia

Marian Dodds has travelled from the Arctic to Africa, exploring colonialism, feminism and cultural learning. She is an SFU Writer's Studio graduate.

Having spent her career teaching and doing advocacy and international work, Vancouver-based Marian Dodds has written about her life-changing period as a volunteer in Ethiopia in Tizita, an Amharic word that roughly translates as “memory” or “story” and is also an Ethiopian musical genre. Dodds encounters both beauty and challenges aplenty in this male-dominated country yet ultimately finds Ethiopian people warm and kind. FULL STORY