Written by Melaku Sahlu - Horizon Ethiopia Staff Writer
Tuesday, 18 December 2007
Book Review
“An Ethiopian Odyssey” – a 25,000 mile journey to make dreams come
true
By Annette
Allen
Do our dreams foretell the future? An
Ethiopian Odyssey is the story of British author, Annette Allen, who decided to give up the struggle after yet another redundancy, and follow
the dreams she’d had since she was a teenager. The most recent dream in April 2000 had been so compelling: she was back in the
foothills of Addis Ababa, to help provide water for the very poor. She’d left the country in 1964, when she was a young schoolgirl
at Nazareth School for Girls.
In April 2002, she
followed her deep faith and intuition, and started a 25,000 mile journey to see what showed up. Everything required on the journey arrived at
the moment it was needed – whether it was sitting beside the right person who knew the individual she needed to contact next, money, or a
clear dream with another message. The “Odyssey” describes how increasing small, clear connections guided Annette to find nine former
classmates from her Ethiopian schooldays from 40 years ago starting from Nazareth School, Addis Ababa and ending at St. Paul’s Chapel, the
little church of great peace beside Ground Zero in New York. The book also includes stories about WaterAid’s work in and what life is like
for families without clean water.
Half of the
royalties will be going to charity, the majority to WaterAid , who’ve been working in the country since 1983. Annette commented:
“I pray that one day the book will sell very well, as water is indeed, life.”
