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The church they closed
Most Dega are Christians, and the state has decided that one form of our Christianity is not a religion at all but a political conspiracy in religious dress. That decision is the legal hinge on which most of the last twenty-five years of persecution in the highlands turns.
Dega culture
A village, the land around it held in common, kinship that decides obligation, and a moral order older than any state that has claimed us. Around thirty peoples, each with its own building, weaving, music and dance, held together by an animist thread that runs through all of them — and by a gong tradition UNESCO has recognised as a masterpiece o...
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