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Roha
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Remembering the Great Harry Belafonte

Post by Roha » 25 Apr 2023, 13:03

Harry Belafonte was great singer, actor and human rights activist. He was a great friend of Africa, South Africa, Ethiopia, Cuba and the Caribbean and Latin America.
Who will forget his activism against the South African Apartheid and to free Nelson Mandela, during the Ethiopian famine of 1984, his work against the Cuban political and economic embargo ....
Many of us in north Ethiopia and Eritrea have received the food aid, medicine, he worked very hard to reach us. He was in Addis Ababa in 1985 and he was mesmerized when he saw Tsegaye Gebremedhin's Shakespearean Othello staged in Amharic. Harry said, though it was in Amharic, I remembered and reconnected to every line.



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