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Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin (1936 - 2006) was Ethiopia's poet laureate. His first play, written before entering high school, was presented before an audience that included Emperor Haile Selassie. An alumnus of the Royal Court Theater in London and the Comédie-Française in Paris, he returned to Ethiopia to serve as the artistic director of Ethiopian National Theatre and founded the theatre department at Addis Ababa University. He translated Shakespeare, Molière, and Brecht into Amharic, while his own plays and poetry were written in Amharic and English. Although several of his plays were banned in his beloved country at certain points during his life, he is considered Ethiopia's greatest modern literary figure. The anthem of the African Union is based on his poem which reads, "All sons and daughters of Africa, flesh of the sun and flesh of the sky, let us make Africa the tree of life."
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