Tribal Wives – Afar Tribe In Ethiopia

A former alcoholic Scottish air hostess experiences life with one of Ethiopia’s most fiercely independent nomadic tribes, as Tribal Wives continues.

The series sees six Western women, juggling with the pressures of modern life, spending nearly a month living with tribes from the Amazon to sub-Saharan Africa, where women’s roles are very different. Their time with the tribes proves to be life-changing experiences for the women.

Twenty-eight year-old Lana hasn’t touched a drop for over a year, but she is still deeply troubled by her alcoholic past.

Ethiopia’s nomadic Afar tribe have a tough reputation, carrying guns to protect their cattle and camel herds from rival clans and wild animals.

For the women, female circumcision is common and their strict Muslim culture forbids alcohol. Anyone found drinking is immediately beaten and ostracised.

From doing house repairs to milking cattle and goats, collecting water from a river where crocodiles prowl to chopping wood, baking bread to walking miles to do the laundry in a lake, Lana discovers how demanding everyday life is for Afar women and learns some of their innermost secrets.

Wednesday 2 July
9.00-10.00pm BBC TWO