Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin

Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin was born on 17 August 1936 in Boda, near Ambo, to an Oromo father and an Amhara mother, of clerical lineage. He wrote his first play at primary school and saw it performed before Haile Selassie. A law graduate in Chicago in 1959, he obtained a UNESCO grant that took him to the Royal Court in London and the Comédie-Française, then from 1961 to 1971 directed his country's national theatre and founded an acting school there. He wrote more than thirty plays, eighteen of which were banned by one government or another, and died in New York on 25 February 2006.

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