Bahru Zewde (born 1947 in Addis Ababa) is an Ethiopian historian and author. [1] He writes extensively about modern Ethiopian history (1855 to the present) and is now an emeritus professor at Addis Ababa University where he once served as the Head of the History Department and the Director of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies. [2]
He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in History with distinction from Haile Selassie I University (now known as Addis Ababa University) in 1970 and his Ph.D. in African history from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London in 1976. [3] [ unreliable source? ]
In addition to his professorship at Addis Ababa University, Zewde was a visiting professor at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1992 and at Hamburg University in 2002. [1] He has also held fellowships at the British Academy, Oxford University, and the Japan Foundation. [1]
Addis Ababa University (AAU) is a national university located in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is the oldest university in Ethiopia. AAU has thirteen campuses. Twelve of these are situated in Addis Ababa, and one is located in Bishoftu, about 45 kilometres (28 mi) away. AAU has several associated research institutions including the Institute of Ethiopian Studies. The Ministry of Education admits qualified students to AAU based on their score on the Ethiopian University Entrance Examination (EUEE).
Famines in Ethiopia have occurred periodically throughout the history of the country.
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Afäwarq Gäbrä Iyäsus was an Ethiopian writer, who wrote the first novel in Amharic, Ləbb Wälläd Tarik, . Bahru Zewde writes, "Few people before or after him have demonstrated such superb mastery of the Amharic language. Few have ventured with such ingenuity into the hidden recesses of that language to come out with a wealth of vocabulary and idiom one scarcely thought the language possessed. Afäwarq is nonetheless a controversial figure for having supported the Italians during both the First and Second Italo-Ethiopian Wars.
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