Mekonnyn Endalkachow ( February 16, 1890 (according to other sources - 1892 ), Addis Ababa - February 27, 1963 , ibid. [1] ) - Ethiopian politician and writer, Prime Minister of the country in 1943-1957. He wore the title dejazmacha .
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Born in a wealthy noble family, close to the court; since 1908 he studied at the capital’s school of Menelik II [2] , and then studied theology in Khartoum. In July 1918 he was appointed Minister of Commerce, then he was for some time a military attaché in Paris , in 1922-1924 - ambassador to Great Britain [3] . In 1924 he accompanied the Ethiopian emperor Haile Selassie I on his trip to Europe [2] ; from 1931 to 1933 he represented the country in the League of Nations , in 1934 he served as mayor of Addis Ababa, in 1935 he was appointed governor of the province of Illubabor . In 1936, during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War, he participated in the battles in Ogaden , then he emigrated with the emperor, and until 1941 lived in Jerusalem [2] ; shortly after the liberation of Ethiopia began - in March 1941 - he returned to his homeland and received the post of Minister of the Interior (in the government, at that time not recognized by the British occupying the country). After the restoration of Ethiopian sovereignty at the end of 1942, he took over as prime minister: he was confirmed in this position by the emperor on January 29, 1943, resigned on November 1, 1957, and then until 1961 he headed the Ethiopian Senate. In 1945, he represented Ethiopia at a conference in San Francisco on the founding of the UN [4] . According to some reports, as prime minister, he was almost not involved in government affairs, being immersed in intellectual studies and writing literary works [5] .
Of the works of Mekonnyn Endalkachou, the collection of novels and plays “Correct Me!”, Published in 1953, is most well-known, including the novel “I Don't Lie, Saying I'm Not Dead” (“አልሞትኹም ብዬ አልዋሽም”; “Almothum Biye” Alvashim ”) (about the fate of an Ethiopian woman who, against her will, who was during the occupation of the country a prisoner of the Italian fascist) [4] and“ The Changing World ”. Until that time, he had also written several novels: Tsekhai Mesfeng (1949), Taita Bytul (1950), Gossip (Joro Tabby, 1951). He also penned works on philosophy and psychology (it is known, in particular, Endalkachow’s fascination with European sentimentalism).
Notes
- ↑ Makonnen Endelkachew, in the Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia , David H. Shinn and Thomas P. Ofcansky, eds. (Scarecrow Press, 2004) pp265-266
- ↑ 1 2 3 Bahru Zewde, Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia (Oxford: James Currey , 2002), p. 78
- ↑ London Gazette; Issue 33554 (Nov. 1929) p. 7532
- ↑ 1 2 Spencer, Ethiopia at Bay: A personal account of the Haile Selassie years (Algonac: Reference Publications, 1984), p. 161
- ↑ Bahru Zewde, A History of Modern Ethiopia , second edition (Oxford: James Currey , 2001), p. 204.
Links
- Mekonnyn Endalkachou // Great Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. ed. Yu.S. Osipov . - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2004—2017.