By Prof. Paulos Milkias September 30, 2020 It is with great sadness that we learned, as of yesterday, professor Mesfin Wolde Mariam, an indefatigable Ethiopian nationalist, is no more. Mesfin is the victim of Covid-19 at age 90. For me, writing this In-Memoriam is personal. It brings back decades of memories. The first time I remember seeing Prof. Mesfin Wolde Mariam was when he came to General Wingate Secondary School to recruit me, and three other teenage colleagues, to work at the Ethio-American Mapping and Geography Institute, of which he was a Co-Director. When he was removed from the position
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