Rambo House (Harar)

          Harar, the ancient capitol of the Horn of Africa, hides in the wilds of Ethiopia, oasis central for notables from the child prodigy French poet Arthur Rimbaud and the inadvertent god and father of Rastafarians, Ras Tafari aka Emperor Haile Selassie, to the first European to enter the enclave, Sir Richard Burton. The Horn of Africa has subdivided into lawless Somalia and not quite as lawless Ethiopia, Eritrea and Djibouti.
       

 Rambo's House Museum is also called Rainbow House for its blue, yellow and green windowpanes, not quite the colors of the Ethiopian flag and Rastifarian memorabilia. A stone staircase winds up to a veranda with six columns from which hang excerpts from Rimbaud's poetry, such as "I is someone else." The House is done in an Islamic gingerbread style. Like many travelers since, Rimbaud asked the original question; "What am I doing here?" But then he also wrote in The Drunken Boat "I drifted on a river I could not control."