Professor Andreas Eshete
The former president of Addis Ababa University Professor Andreas Eshete has been receiving medical treatment for the illness he has suffered today, June 23, 2016 E.C. They have landed. Popular media has shared their story.
Short history of Professor Andreas Eshete.
The Professor: “I was very blessed as a child. They say I can say I was raised by three families.” Speaking about themselves in their own words. The Professor’s story begins here.
Today’s professor Andreas Eshette was born with his mother Menbere Gebre Mariam and his father Eshette Tesema and spent his childhood four kilo in Addis Ababa.
After their mother and father, their uncle Jemanew Ababa, they have been raised by their young age in Pancrest family, they have been able to educate themselves with knowledge and experience through care and reading. Andreas Eshete who started their education at Dagmawi Menelik secondary school which is mentioned as the fanawogi of modern school in Ethiopia followed his education at Williams college. Until he got his doctorate degree from Yale University, he went through extensive reading experience and philosophical life, after working abroad and teaching in many universities, he came back to his country and served in Addis Ababa University as a teacher and also as the president of the university, and continued to be advisor to the former prime minister of Ethiopia, Mr. Meles Zenawi. They have served. When the Ethiopian constitution was signed in 1995 they have contributed their role as a member.
When the professor was the president of Addis Ababa University, he did a lot of work that cross generations. Among the contributions he made during his presidency, he is a scholar who contributed a lot to the blind by making decisions at the policy level by enabling the blind to go to Yared Music School and continue their education. He did the first physical training by taking out what was under guidance and counseling and giving a place to build a building. The professor is the one who established the Center for Disabled Students or (Special Needs Support Center).
The modern art museum has made the works of Gebre Kristos to be placed and visited separately as they are now. Also, in the history of Addis Ababa University, the first female vice president of today, Professor Hirut Wolde Mariam was appointed at this time. She has helped many to open new academic fields at PhD level. It will rise.
Ethiopia got it’s first female professor, Professor Alemtsehay Mekonen during the time of the professor’s presidency. The audience who attended the stage witnessed that day, they were filled with tears of joy and encouragement.
Their name is frequently associated with empowering women. In addition, some of the things they did during their presidency, they came out of the classroom and invited different scholars to establish themselves as a college by bringing the great organizer Abate Mekuria to the university so that the new generation can gain their experience and knowledge. Professor Andreas Eshete is the one who did it, his history says.
Andreas is a philosopher who has made a great contribution to the country and Africa in different fields of education mainly in law philosophy and law and philosophy.
Andreas wrote an article titled “self-help in Ethiopia ” in the magazine ” Ethiopia observer ” published by Richard Pancrest that he first published when he was young, about Ethiopia being the resources of helping the international community about Edir, Qub and associations with Richard Pancrest writing an article titled ” self-help in Ethiopia” and how our culture interact with the rest of the world. Andreas had a great contribution by exploring and listing as it is, and also by highlighting indigenous knowledge and culture.
During his career, Andreas has served not only locally but internationally as UNESCO Chair of Human Rights, Peace and Democracy. These are the places where Brown has served teaching at UCLA: UC-Berkeley and Penn.
While he was in America, he was an active participant in the human rights movement and was also a scholar in the Black Panther party. He has published his works focused on moral and political philosophies and ethics in many ways. Apart from philosophy, he has made us read short and long articles about Ethiopia at different times.
The professor has studied, taught and philosophized all his time. Andreas Eshette has been a teacher at Brown University in America: UCLA, Berlin, Pennsylvania University where he has taught abroad and produced many students.
He was known not only for teaching in different areas but also for teaching different subjects. From philosophy to ethics, religion to art, brotherhood to freedom, he was able to share many philosophies. Among the famous people who gained international recognition are the leading political philosopher Joseph Conn and the president of human rights Kenneth Roff who are mentioned among the professor’s students.
The professor was one of the famous scholars in the Ethiopian students movement during his youth. Although he fought with pen, his stand with black rights, his readiness and his political contribution to the country will be highlighted by being a member of the Ethiopian Socialist Movement (MEISON) party.
Even the professor is one of the great philosophers of Plato, Marx and Hegles, and local scholars like Negadras Tesema Eshete and Mengistu Lemma say that they have a great love and respect for literature.
Apart from teaching and university life, many national heritage, churches and national food, crosses and lamps books have been taken back to the country by the committee that was trying to bring back stolen Ethiopian artifacts to the country, by fighting with the international community and convincing them to bring back some of the resources in time. One of the committee members is Andreas Eshete.
He was also the coordinator of the 100th anniversary of the Adwa war. The philosopher believes that Adwa is a history that our forefathers made is not only Ethiopians but also the whole blacks proud.
The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia has served as a coordinating member of constitutional and administrative affairs during the 1995 constitution was amended and amended. They are told that they had a great contribution in the board.
By being the chairman and member of the African Union Human Rights Memorial Project interim board, he is mentioned as one of the scholars who strongly integrate Pan Africanism. He has also served as the chairman of the Tana Forum High Level Forum and as a board member of the Federation Forum.
Among his writings, the one he wrote about “brotherhood” seems to have played a big role in his practical work in Ethiopia. Among the three ideas, “freedom, equality and brotherhood”, the political philosophers of the western world focus on “freedom and equality” and ignore “brotherhood” in the context of ethnic federalism in Ethiopia, it seems safe to apply the idea of “brotherhood” to nations that have common language and culture.
By replacing “racism” with “tribal identity” it is possible to present a similar argument regarding racism by being an example of brotherhood.
Besides his working life, the professor is described by his close friends, Andreas is a reader and a complete philosopher. He is a friend you can trust, knowledgeable and a player. He has a soft soul and if he sees someone hurt, he expresses his sorrow with tears. His friends describe him as a kind person who cares a lot about women’s rights. He was not only an observer but also a key participant in the key historical events of Ethiopia.
His colleagues describe the professor as an Ethiopian philosopher with deep reading and experience, who lives what he believes. In addition to his son Alula Andreas, his ex-wife Emuye Asfaw, who raised him with fatherly love, was a father of three children including Armak and Adey.