141 SHARES Facebook TwitterBy Prof. Paulos MilkiasSeptember 30, 2020It is with great sadness that we learned, as of yesterday, professor Mesfin Wolde Mariam, an indefatigable Ethiopian nationalist, is no more. The first time I remember seeing Prof. Mesfin Wolde Mariam was when he came to General Wingate Secondary School to recruit me, and three other teenage colleagues, to work at the Ethio-American Mapping and Geography Institute, of which he was a Co-Director. He was with us all the way when we launched the radical student journal Struggle, which castigated the feudal regime. It was because he was a great Ethiopian nationalist that, in our darkest days, he lit a candle of hope and tried to liberate many of his countrymen from the clutch of despair. May God bless Professor Mesfin Wolde Mariam, and may he rest in eternal peace.

Source: Ethiopian News October 01, 2020 01:18 UTC