Ethiopia: Man Yinager? Man Yimeskir!? Who was Laureate Tsegaye Gebremedhin?
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Ethiopia: Man Yinager? Man Yimeskir!? Who was Laureate Tsegaye Gebremedhin?
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin Robba Qawessa, from an Oromo family, was born in Boda, near Ambo, Ethiopia, While still at elementary school he wrote a play called "King Dionysus and the Two Brothers" and saw it staged in the presence, among others, of Emperor Haile Selassie.
Tsegaye later attended the prestigious British Council-supported General Wingate school – named after British officer Orde Wingate. He subsequently attended the Commercial school in Addis Ababa, where he won a scholarship to Blackstone School of Law in Chicago in 1959. In 1960 he travelled to Europe to study experimental drama at the Royal Court Theatre in London and the Comédie-Française in Paris. Upon returning to Ethiopia, he devoted himself to managing and developing the Ethiopian National Theater – which institution staged an impressive memorial for its former director.