Mammo Wudneh is a playwright, journalist and Former President of the Ethiopian Writers' Association. He is actively involved as a peacemaker between Ethiopia and Eritrea working on an interfaith committee chaired by Abune Paulos

Abune Paulos

Abune Paulos is Abuna and Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church . His full title is "His Holiness Abuna Paulos, Fifth Patriarch and Catholicos of Ethiopia, Ichege of the See of St...

, the Patriarch

Patriarch

Originally a patriarch was a man who exercised autocratic authority as a pater familias over an extended family. The system of such rule of families by senior males is called patriarchy. This is a Greek word, a compound of πατριά , "lineage, descent", esp...

 of the Tewahedo Church

Tewahedo Church

Tewahedo Church may refer to any of the following:* The Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church* The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church...

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Early life

Mammo Wudneh was orphaned during the Second Italo-Abyssinian War

Second Italo-Abyssinian War

The Second Italo–Abyssinian War was a colonial war that started in October 1935 and ended in May 1936. The war was fought between the armed forces of the Kingdom of Italy and the armed forces of the Ethiopian Empire...

 when the Italians bombed his village, Bashagia in what was then Wollo

Wollo

Wollo was a historical region and province in the northeastern part of Ethiopia, with its capital city at Dessie. The province was named after the Wollo Oromo, who settled in this part of Ethiopia in the 17th century...

Province. By chance he later met one of the pilots who took part in the raid that killed his family. In a moving encounter the playwright forgave the pilot.

Published works

• Degree yasabedew
• Khartoum hedo qere
• Hirut abatwa manew?
• Gilen-yekifle zemenu selay
• Miseate Israel
• Yegna sew bedemasko

External links

• "So You are the One who Destroyed My Village", by Mammo Wudneh