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Blattengeta Hiruy Walda Sillāse

Ethiopian author

Also known as: Heruy Walda Sellasse

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contribution to African literature

In African literature: Ethiopian
Heruy Walda Sellasse, an Ethiopian foreign minister who became the country’s first major writer, wrote two novels that are critical of child marriage and that extol Christianity and Western technology. But he was also critical of the Christian church and proposed in one of his…
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