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Asfa-Wossen Asserate

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Asfa-Wossen Asserate, born 1948 in Addis Ababa, is the great-nephew of Emperor Haile Selassie. He studied history and law in Tübingen and Cambridge, and earned his doctorate in Frankfurt am Main. After the Ethiopian revolution of 1974 he settled in Germany, where he now works as a management consultant for Africa and the Middle East as well as being a political analyst.
 
(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2004 Adalbert von Chamisso Prize
  • 2015 Jacob Grimm Prize

More Publications

Die neue Völkerwanderung
Propyläen, Berlin 2016.
 
Der letzte Kaiser von Afrika. Triumph und Tragödie des Haile Selassie
Propyläen, Berlin 2014.

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