Menghistu Lemma

Menghistu Lemma

▪ Ethiopian writer
Menghistu also spelled  Mengestu  or  Menghestu 
born August 1925, Addis Ababa, Eth.
died July 1988, Addis Ababa

      Ethiopian writer whose poetry and plays written in Amharic (the modern language of Ethiopia) examine the difficulty of reconciling traditional values and customs with modern Western ideas.

      After receiving a Muslim education in Harer, Menghistu Lemma studied in Addis Ababa and in London at the Regent Street Polytechnic and the London School of Economics (1953). He worked in government service, notably as first secretary at the Ethiopian embassy in India (1957–63). His best-known plays, which he also translated into English, were published as Snatch and Run; or Marriage by Abduction (1963; produced 1962) and Marriage of Unequals (1970; produced 1963). He also wrote critical essays in both Amharic and English and published a historically important transcription of his father's oral memoirs.

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Universalium. 2010.

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