Hi Norman,
You are right ....
(I think the picture could be from twenties or maybe thirties from the last century. At that time there were suppliers of hunting arms living in Addis Ababa and Dire Dawa. Small business (not as military supplies). The community of foreigners in both cities was relatively big, already. E. g. only from the former Czechoslovakia there was cca 30 settled entrepreneurs in both cities in twenties and thirties(which is a little bit strange for me...)
I knew one of them personally. He arrived at the age of 18 to dire Dawa in 1926. When I met him, he was 95. For ten years (till 1936) he supplied foreigners and rich Ethiopians with motorcycles and - good hunting rifles made in Czechoslovakia. But he was one of many, I think. There was luck of arms and everything was "suitable")
Best,
Martin
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