Makonnen Endelkachew

Mekonnen Endelkachew
Prime Minister of Ethiopia
In office
29 January 1943 – 1 November 1957
MonarchHaile Selassie I
Preceded byPosition established
Succeeded byAbebe Aregai
Personal details
Born(1890-02-16)16 February 1890
Addisge, Ethiopian Empire
Died27 February 1963(1963-02-27) (aged 73)
Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire
Political partyIndependent
RelativesEndelkachew Mekonnen (son)

Ras Betwoded Mekonnen Endelkachew (16 February 1890 – 27 February 1963)[1] was an Ethiopian aristocrat and Prime Minister under Emperor Haile Selassie. Mekonnen was born in Addisge, the nephew of the noted Shewan general and politician Ras Betwoded Tessema Nadew, who introduced him to Emperor Menilek II. He was a member of the alpha class of the Menelik II School in Addis Ababa when it opened in 1908.[2]

He was a published author, having written a novel, Yayne Abäba, and a booklet on the Second Italo-Abyssinian War and Fascist atrocities.[3]

  1. ^ "Makonnen Endelkachew", in Historical Dictionary of Ethiopia, David H. Shinn and Thomas P. Ofcansky, eds. (Scarecrow Press, 2004) pp265-266
  2. ^ Bahru Zewde, Pioneers of Change in Ethiopia (Oxford: James Currey, 2002), p. 78
  3. ^ Spencer, Ethiopia at Bay: A personal account of the Haile Selassie years (Algonac: Reference Publications, 1984), p. 161

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