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Melaku Belachew
Melaku is an Ethiopian name. Notable people with the name include: Given name *Melaku Belay, leader of the Ethiopian music group Fendika *Melaku Worede (born 1936), Ethiopian agronomist Surname * LoLa Monroe (born Fershgenet Melaku in 1986), American rapper, model and actress of Ethiopian descent *Tsega Melaku Tsega Melaku ( he, צֶגָה מֶלָקוּ; born 1968) is an Israeli author, journalist, and community activist. She is the former director of Kol Yisrael's Reshet Aleph ("Network A") radio station. Before her disqualification from running in I ... (born 1968), Israeli author, journalist, and community activist {{given name, type=both Ethiopian given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fendika
Fendika (Amharic: "Exult!") is an Ethiopian music group based in Addis Ababa. Led by dancer/choreographer Melaku Belay, they operate a venue, tour, record, and perform under the name Fendika. History Born in 1980 in Ethiopia, Melaku Belay lived as an orphan on the streets of Addis Ababa. As a child Belay earned a living shining shoes and taught himself to dance through participation in folk traditions and religious festivals. He worked for seven years as a dancer for tips in Addis Ababa's Kazanchis neighborhood at a local ''azmari bet''—a tavern that hosts azmari story-songsters who accompany themselves on the masenko (a one-stringed violin) or krar (a type of lyre). Each night after work, the young Melaku slept under the bar and eventually saved enough money to buy the club, Fendika Azmari Bet, from its owners. When not working at the azmari bet, Melaku traveled extensively through Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and South Sudan to learn as many dances as he could from more t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melaku Worede
Melaku Worede (; 1936 – 31 July 2023) was an Ethiopian geneticist and agronomist renowned for building one of the finest seed conservation centres in the world, employing science to benefit poor farmers, and saving Africa's seeds from oblivion. Melaku was born in 1936, in Shewa, Ethiopia, to Qeñazmach Worede Gebrekidan, an Ethiopian Shewan governor, army commander and aristocrat from Bulga, and Woizero Amsale Wodajeneh, an Ethiopian noblewoman from Shewa and the daughter of Fitawrari Wodajeneh Awgechaw, who was an army commander and viceroy of Ras Lul Seged in Ethiopia's former Solomonic dynasty Kingdom. Education and career Melaku travelled to the US in the 1960s to pursue post-graduate studies. He obtained a PhD in Agronomy with a focus on plant genetics and breeding from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. After completing his PhD, he returned to Ethiopia and became involved in the planning of the Plant Genetic Resources Centre in Addis Ababa, of which he became Direc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tsega Melaku
Tsega Melaku ( he, צֶגָה מֶלָקוּ; born 1968) is an Israeli author, journalist, and community activist. She is the former director of Kol Yisrael's Reshet Aleph ("Network A") radio station. Before her disqualification from running in Israel's March 2015 election with the Kulanu party, it was expected she could become a Member of the Knesset.Roi Mandel"Ethiopian born Tsega Melaku disqualified from running on Kahlon's list" YNET, 26 January 2015.Niv Elis"Kahlon to enlist Ethiopian Israeli Tsega Melaku for Koolanu" ''The Jerusalem Post'', 11 January 2015. Early life and education Melaku was born in Gondar, Ethiopia, and left her family in her native Ethiopia to emigrate to Israel in 1984 at the age of 16. She recalls that her first defense of her rights in Israel was to insist on keeping her first name, instead of adopting the Hebraicized "Oshra", a name given to her on her arrival. "When we arrived in Jerusalem, we thought that the people would greet us with open arms", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
