The Anglo-Ethiopian Society
Lecture - ONLINE - A Fulfilling Journey Through Conflicts and Contradictions
Mengesha Kebede Tessema
Thursday 16th March 2023
Online event starting at 19:00 GMT - Public lecture (all welcome to join).
Note - Register for the event on Eventbrite and you'll be emailed a Zoom link shortly before the event.
Mengesha Kebede Tessema will give a talk based on his recent autobiography, A Fulfilling Journey Through Conflicts and Contradictions.
This is a coming of age story of an Ethiopian who traversed his origins in Ethiopia to becoming a UN international employee working across cultures, various countries in difficult and challenging situations.
Mengesha has had a long and distinguished career working for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). His autobiography gives details of his upbringing and life in the royal court of the emperor; the violent transition of political power in Ethiopia in the 1970s, the Ethiopian student movement in the Middle East and the Lebanon Civil War, together with details of his work for the UNHCR in refugee camps all over Africa, and also in Pakistan.
Mengesha Kebede Tessema is a retired international civil servant who worked at various locations for UNHCR for most of his life.
Please reserve your place soon to avoid disappointment.
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A Fulfilling Journey Through Conflicts & Contradictions by Mengesha Kebede Tessema Publisher: Africa World Press, May 2022 ISBN: 9781569027745 (hardback), UKRRP £99.95 ISBN: 9781569027752 (paperback), UKRRP £29.95 |