When a bride married a teacher in Ethiopia, there was once a song to celebrate her choice: “የኛሙሽራኩሪኩሪ፣ወሰዳትአስተማሪ” — roughly, “Our bride, be proud, be proud, the teacher took her away.” The anonymous teacher who recalled the lyric has spent more than a decade in an elementary classroom. He invokes it wistfully, as a marker […]
