Two women connected through their life’s work with circus, Sosina Wogayehu and Jasmine Straga, have recently responded to Circostrada‘s report from 2018 titled, Ethiopia, An Insight into African Circus Arts. Both women, having lived and worked in the region, and having worked with many Ethiopian circus artists,  point out some inconsistencies and oversights in the research which they say erroneously portrays Ethiopian circus as a product of western outreach. You can read their open letters, which only just begins to hint at the richness and complexity...