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Mursi Tribesman with iPod

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Courtesy of Wired through InstaPundit, is this remarkable photo of a Mursi tribesman in Southern Ethiopia with an iPod as well as his trusty AK-47 and ethnic getup.

Mursi tribesman in Southern Ethiopia with iPod

I’m not sharing this to make a freak show out of this site, but rather to document an interesting phenomenon — where high technology meets traditional life in East Africa. I doubt Steve Jobs really imagined a tribesman would be iPodding it up — I for one never thought of it.

Written by Kambiz Kamrani

May 25, 2007 at 9:27 pm

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