There are two ways to be rich or super rich in Ethiopia: 1) Be a member of the Tigrean People Liberation Front (Woyanne); or 2) Be a Woyanne butt-kisser. There is no other way. The photos below show how one of these super rich individuals, the owner of Sunshine Construction, lives in Addis Ababa. It is to preserve and expand this ill-gotten wealth that Woyanne will fight tooth and nail to stay in power as long as it can no matter the cost to the people of Ethiopia. It is a good thing to be rich, but not through cruel exploitation and subjugation of other people.
The home of Sunshine Construction owner Samuel Tafesse, a business partner and personal friend of Azeb Mesfin, Meles Zenawi’s wife.
Addis Ababa
Woyanne billionaire Al Amoudi visits Samuel’s house
114 thoughts on “PHOTOS: Lifestyle of the super rich in Ethiopia”
IF YOU ARE BORN POOR IT IS NOT YOUR MISTAKE, BUT IF YOU DIE POOR IT IS YOUR MISTAKE.
Bill Gates
I believe you have to work hard to succeed, there is nothing for free in this world. The only problem is some are fortunate while others are not.
KT LONG LIVE ETHIOPIA! replies:
April 18th, 2012 at 2:31 PM
Exactly man! Good point!
i wish i could help those poor kids. I’m lucky I’m not one of them. I would every thing in my to give those food,shelter, and clothing. I hope they can survive threw the harsh and
diffucult days.
Please do not rush to judgment before you know the person,in this case i happen to know that, this guy is very very hard working guy and very smart person i ever knew in my life.He started from scratch nothing at all worked day and night with only few hours sleep,fixing a roof leak,took all the risks ups and downs and gradually becomes a succesful business person.Hard work always pays off. is it not what we expected any one of our ethiopian business men to do ? this guy needs to be complimented for his hard work and success because he is a role model for any of us so please stop wealth envying and most of all, the unfortunate poverty we see has nothing to do with some body hard work and sucess,as the mater of fact this guy employees thousands of workers . I wish him all the best.
Don’t hate. The guys used to be very poor so let him have his cake.
This is why ethiopia will never prosper because we hate on eachother so damn much!. Why is it that we have to gossip and hate on our own people but seem to “understand” why Bill Gates is so rich and Donal Trump is so rich.
Being a fantastic business man,working hard and investing in something at a right time and right place will allow EVERY person to achieve what Samuel has achieved!.
Stop wasting your time on segregation within Ethiopia. Stop the hate and enjoy the fact when one of our people is prospering. It should only make us proud.
I love my country, i think of us as one and i love to see us do better and achieve greatness!
It is a common knowledge that disparity exists, be it in democratic rich society or just down-trodden nation. The fact is, their always has been duality in the theme of creation as well as in human existence exclusively for contrast purposes. One cannot appreciate light if there is no darkness. So, until we know the truth, I beseech you let as refrain from attacking those who are lucky enough to make it into the rack of opulence life. In fact, we can be inspired and dream bigger looking at whose above us verses looking down below us and be discouraged. If we work hard we also can enjoy this life style. But, I pray we will have a motherland and rule of law that does not favor the privileged and deprived the miss-fortunate.
Is it me or the house look outragously superstitous. I cannot imagin a human being living here. It has no grace at all– just show, color, and excess. It is tastless. I love my home sweet home made from mud and wood.
wow …those who are lazy and jelous always have something negetiv to say .They dont even first appreciate hard working and efforts made by those who are rich.And i think the writer of this column is one of them.The owner of sunshine construction start from scratch ,to be specific he was a painter and he fought and work hard on his way up and i belive he deserve every peny he has been making and above all when i see how he is living his life i am very happy for him that is how we all should live and that is a motivation for those who have a good heart ….those haters though write crap columns and to bad we dont like them ………appreciate people who work hard and get rich ….
love an peace
i know one truth in my life that is if u work hard u can get what ever u like but realy this wealth is come from only from ur hard working if yes that is absolutely a great and we can try to work hard like u but i realise that this is not one person effort there should corruption!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It looks I am the only one to log this comment on here after 08/02/2010. I had the opportunity to visit some of the sites of Sunshine Real Estate some time in the early 2011. I was amzaed by what I had seen both at the head office and the different construction sites that belonged to Estate. For that matter all the Real Estates operationg in the country deserve due appreciation for the contribution they have been making to the growth of thelong forgotten Addis.
I was in Ethiopia when the owner of the Real Estate, Ato Samuel Tafesse when he built his first building that is located across Flamingo Caffee House during the time of defunct derg regime. I would say he was the first to be moving in the direction of Real Estate and don’t understand why people are surprised to see him as woner of a Real Estate. The real problem with us Ethiopians is to brand people like Samuel with different bad adjectives. That is not the way to encouarge people to contribute to the development of their country.
I LOVE ETHIOPIA im from mauritius ,i think that house is beautiful,ethiopia got lots of potential,very clever people very old language and tradition,i would say ethiopian unite u r beautiful people ,peace and love from mauritius .
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