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Daniachew Worku

Died in 1994

Daniachew Worku was born on 24 February 1936 near Debre Sina, in Shewa, the eldest of five children. His father had left for France in 1914 and had served during the First World War before returning home to marry; under the Italian occupation, he had to flee the house for a whole year. A pupil at the Guebre-Mariam school, then a student at the University of Addis Ababa, where he taught Amharic literature and dramatic art, he lost that post because of his political activism and for a time ran a publishing house. He died on 1 December 1994 in Addis Ababa, of food poisoning.

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