"I, along with my colleagues who were trained in China, are now able to exhibit different circus arts of international standard," he said. "We managed to create synchronization between Chinese and Ethiopian cultures, and performed them in different shows in Ethiopia and beyond," Debebe said. He noted that the Chinese circus has various disciplines that require tough training. "The scholarship opportunity had been open for international students until the outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020," Girmay Assefa, secretary general of the Ethiopian Gymnastics Federation, said. According to the Ethiopian Gymnastics Federation, as in most other sub-Saharan African countries, the circus art had no historical precedents in Ethiopia until it was introduced as a foreign art in late 1980s.

Source: Ethiopian News May 05, 2024 10:24 UTC