Mengistu Lemma

Mengistu Lemma received a traditional religious education, then went to study in London, at the Regent Street Polytechnic and the London School of Economics. Entering the diplomatic service, he was first secretary of the Ethiopian embassy in India from 1957 to 1963. A poet, playwright and essayist, he wrote in Amharic and in English, and his comedies with a social purpose were very popular; he is held to be the principal comic author of the Amharic theatre. He died in 1988.

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• TheatreThe Marriage of UnequalsYalacha GabichaMengistu Lemma · 1963Literature