These are the most prized works of art displayed at an exhibition at the Sheraton Addis during the first week of September 2009,
in the month of February, 2012. Born in Erba-gered –Tigray, Northern Ethiopia, Sebhat was a great figure in the history of Ethiopian literature. Sibhat’s novels contain frank sexual depiction, unlike the conservative Ethiopian culture where sexual matters are to be repressed.
Author/Journalist Mamo Wudineh was born in Wag - Wollo, Northern Ethiopia. Wudineh worked as editor of the country’s major daily and weekly newspapers and served as the first Editor-in-Chief of the police newspaper.
At the entrance of the Africa hall at the headquarters of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), the first thing a visitor could see is one such depiction Pan-Africanism - the famous stained-glass windows-
"King Solomon meets the Queen of Sheba," by Maître Afewerk Tekle
This painting by The Most Honourable World Laureate Maître Artiste Afewerk Tekle hangs In St. George's Cathedral, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Orthodox Christians in Ethiopia believe the Biblical Queen of Sheba was a ruler of Ethiopia who visited King Solomon in Jerusalem in ancient Israel.
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