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Follow the tradition of the country. >> anthony: second grade. >> marcus: mm-hmm. >> anthony: that's it. >> marcus: mm-hmm. >> anthony: what after that? >> marcus: you stay -- you work at home. it's been very enriching and loving, you know, for us and, uh, we have a purpose, you know, we know what our goal is. our goal is to get them through school. you're looking at a chemist in a couple of months. whatever new ethiopia you see, they're it. farmers coming in and going to school and now have options.

Damned farmer, that's for sure. where's home for you, man? where do you think, ya know, looking back on it all -- >> marcus: yeah. that's an eternal question for me, you know? i feel at home in new york. i feel very much at home when i'm in africa, but i also feel out of place. and coming to this very place, aberagodana, it gives me a lot of humility, but i can't say it's home. i can't say it's home. ♪ >> anthony: happiest moment in africa? >> marcus: happiest moment is, i think, when we're at maya's village, for me, the whole village comes together, music, food, culture brings everybody tog...

Post world war ii, ethiopia was in the delirious thrall of american big band and swing groups like glenn miller, and against the backdrop of a traditional and official obsession with military marching bands you had the means and the will and the environment to make musical magic. and this man, mahmoud ahmed, has always been at the forefront. ♪ [ singing in amharic ] >> anthony: when you looked to the west, were there american musicians who spoke to you? >> mahmoud: [ speaking amharic ]

So, who is your father? >> maya: my dad was my hero and everyone's hero in this -- i mean everyone, but my brother could explain a little bit more. >> petros: he was a local chief and also a member of the supreme, or the highest court, you can say. during the haile selassie period he was engaged in more innovative and experimental and mechanized farm. with, during the communist -- >> anthony: yes. >> petros: period. you know, something unexpected happened. >> anthony: in 1974 emperor haile selassie was deposed and the very unpleasant general mengistu and a hard-lying communist regime called th...

>> marcus: dog is happy. >> anthony: oh yeah. >> marcus: nice and bloody in his face. >> anthony: oh yeah. that's awesome. the production continues. women in the kitchen, except for marcus, who looks most comfortable there, though his presence is a befuddlement to the others. men taking care of the meat. oh, bro food traditions, you're everywhere. >> marcus: you know, none of the people that cook here today, like, consider themselves cooks. all of them like -- >> anthony: well, like, in rural communities when you kill a big, you know, a couple of animals, right, everybody in the village has, s...