Heruy Wäldä Sellasie

Born Gäbrä Mäsqäl on 8 May 1878 in Merhabété, in Shewa, Heruy Wäldä Sellasie lost his father at thirteen and lived at first as a deacon in the service of a great landowner, then as secretary to a governor. At the school of a church in Entoto, his teacher gave him the name Heruy, “precious”. Appointed in 1916 to head Addis Ababa and the state printing house, whose print runs he multiplied, he became minister of foreign affairs from 1930 to 1936 and published twenty-eight books. He followed the emperor into exile after the Italian invasion and died on 19 September 1938 in the royal residence in Bath, England.

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• Novelአዲስ አለምHeruy Wäldä Sellasie · 1932not translated into EnglishLiterature