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          The rage and priority of their foremost poet, Tsegaye Gebre Medhin, was to produce Shakespear's Othello.

        1. Ethiopian poet and play-wright Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin's Amharic poem,.
        2. Tsegaye's fate is an object demonstration of what an African writer must sacrifice if he writes in his native tongue – fame and love among his people.
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        4. TsegayeGabre-Medhin ABOUT THE POET Tsegaye Gabre- Medhin was an Ethiopian poet, playwright, art director, no war and a human right activist.

          5. Tsegaye's fate is an object demonstration of what an African writer must sacrifice if he writes in his native tongue – fame and love among his people..

          Gabre–Medhin, Tsegaye Kawessa

          Writer

          Ethiopian writer Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin was considered his country's most important literary figure of the twentieth century.

          His death in February of prompted an outpouring of tribute, with the writers of his obituary in London's Guardian newspaper, Yohannes Edemariam and Aida Edemariam, noting that Ethiopia's poet laureate "wrote in English and was a translator of Shakespeare, but his real gift and achievement was to harness the considerable lyrical powers of his own, Ethiopian, languages." A New York Times obituary by Jesse McKinley also commended Gabre-Medhin's service to the literature of the African continent.

          "Steeped in the mythology of his region, he viewed the history of Ethiopia—an ancient kingdom with a tradition of independence from colonial powers—as symbolic of a continent's pride and potential," McKinley wrote.

          Gabre-Medhin's first name was pronounced "say-GAY," and there are several alternate forms of his full moniker