Category: Obituaries
The renowned Ethiopian poet, screenwriter, journalist and essayist, Solomon Deressa, who settled in the United States in the early 1980s, died on Thursday in Minnesota, his family announced. He was 80.
Tributes have poured in from politicians to literary greats to remember historian Richard Pankhurst, who died at the age of 89 after pneumonia on Thursday. Professor Richard Pankhurst was the founder and first Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies…
Renowned Ethiopianist, sociological theorist Donald N. Levine has died at the age of 84. His son, Bill Levine announced this morning that “Gash Liben, Ethiopian scholar, lover of Ethiopia, founder of the Aikido Ethiopia Project has passed away today at…
Taffara Deguefé, who died on March 6 aged 89, was a famous banker and perhaps Ethiopia’s best known figure in international financial circles. He was bank governor of the National Bank to the Emperor and Mengistu and he later worked…
The 78-year-old Ethiopian who had a distinguished career in the local sport and Olympic world has been living in Paris since 1976, although frequently traveling to other parts of the world. He lived in Lausanne Switzerland for 12 years where…