The Afar tribe is famous for its butter-covered ... adopted by the Karrayyu tribe who allow butter to drip through their hair All four tribes are cattle herders by tradition and make the butter ...

“Ethiopian kids would give almost anything to finish their schooling,” he says. (John Stanmeyer/For National Geographic) At the start of his journey in Ethi­o­pia, Paul Salopek met many Afar ...

Or they focus on the Afar people's ferocity . . . once accompanied by a habit of cutting off the testicles of any foreigner found in their territory Ethiopia's remote northeast Afar region ...