Dr berhanu nega biography and wife

Ethiopian politician (born 1958)

This article is about a person whose name includes a patronymic. The article properly refers to the person by their given name, Berhanu, and not as Nega.

Berhanu Nega (Amharic: ብርሃኑ ነጋ; born 6 December 1958) is an Ethiopian politician who is serving as the current Minister of Education since 2021. He previously was the mayor elect of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in the 2005 Ethiopian general elections. He is a founding chairman of the Rainbow Ethiopia: Movement for Democracy and Social Justice and a Deputy Chairman of Coalition for Unity and Democracy (CUD), for whom he served as chief election campaign strategist. He is also the co-founder and leader of Ginbot 7, an anti-government rebel group. Until mid-2018, he was labelled a terrorist by the Ethiopian government.

Early life

Berhanu was born on 6 December 1958 in Debrezeit, the son of Ato Nega Bonger (d. 2021), a prominent businessman, and Woizero Abebech Woldegiorgis, the second-eldest of 12 children. He attended Addis Ababa University where he participated in the student movement against the ruling Derg government in his freshman year. When the government acted against political dissidents in 1977, Berhanu with other radical student activists fled to Mount Asimba in northern Ethiopia. After a division within the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party (EPRP), he was detained for openly criticizing killings within the EPRP. After a few months, he was released by his captors and crossed into the Sudan where he lived for two years until he was granted political asylum in the United States.

He did his undergraduate degree in economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz and got his PhD in economics from the New School for Social Research, in New York City. During that time, he became one of the organizers of an annual conference on the "Horn of Africa" that debated and analyzed the political,

Berhanu Nega: Background, History, and Profile

Berhanu Nega: Popular Activist

Berhanu Nega is a man that has been fighting one government or another in Ethiopia for over 40 years.

He was just a young student in Addis Ababa University when he began the long journey of striving to fulfill his life’s passion: to see a fully democratized, united, and economically strong Ethiopia.

Unfortunately, his vision for Ethiopia would cause Berhanu to go through many hardships: from jail to escapes through the desert to exile to sitting in desolate trenches with his soldiers; his was a unique struggle.

Recent developments in Ethiopia have the reformist Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed vowing to create a political climate free from oppression, and this was exactly what Berhanu Nega had been waiting for all his life.

He heeded the PM’s call and returned to his homeland of Ethiopia, after many years in exile.

His welcome can only be described as one given to a hero.

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The thousands upon thousands of Ethiopians that flooded the streets proved that this man has the love and respect of Ethiopians throughout the country, but overwhelmingly within the Amhara region.

A man that commands such support will inevitably be a political force to be reckoned with in the newly transitioning Ethiopia.

Berhanu Nega’s Early Days

Berhanu was born in 1958 in Bishoftu, formerly known as Debre Zeit, a city that is a short 28 miles or 45 kilometers away from Ethiopia’s capital city of Addis Ababa.

Bishoftu is a popular weekend getaway spot for those looking to unwind in the numerous resorts overlooking the city’s six lakes.

Berhanu an ethnic Gurage, was born into a family that had amassed a large fortune from the various successful businesses they ran.

As a member of the upper class, one can characterize his early life as comfortable and devoid of serious worries.

Growing up Berhan

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When I heard people calling the workers at a coffee chain, I cringed. It took me some time to get used to the job title ‘Barista’; It was a cultural shock because where I came from, barista (usually women who work at bars), is not considered a respectable job. It took me a while to offload the cultural luggage and bias.  I just remembered that a few days ago when I was thinking of today’s topic—just like that.

Those of you who went to the Asmara University in the early 2000s know Dr. Jaffar Omran. He finished his higher education in the USA, worked for a while in Addis Ababa University and ended up in Asmara University–I am related to him though marriage connection.

In the 1980s he was teaching at a Saudi University in Riyadh and travelled frequently to Jeddah where I lived. I used to pick him and drop him at the airport and we enjoyed each other’s company and he told me a story:

When he graduated in the USA, he returned to Eritrea and went to visit family members around the town of Goluj where an old relative came to him complaining about an ailment she had and asked if he can give her some medicine. He told her he was not a medical doctor; he had studied agriculture. The woman was not impressed at all: “You travel all the way to America, study for so many years and all you did was study agriculture!” He said he mumbled trying to explain. She pitied him, “what a waste of time, your father is a farmer, you should have remained here to learn agriculture under him.”

Berhanu Negga studied for twenty years but doesn’t seem to have learned honesty and principles—I wish he learned some decency under his parents; at least he would have become a multimillionaire–his people have a knack for trading and commerce.

Some years ago, Berhanu Negga sought mentorship under Isaias who took him under his wings—I must admit he fought fiercely against the EPRDF (TPLF fo

U.S. Professor Berhanu Nega, Chairman of the largest rebel group in East Africa, the United Movement for the Salvation of Ethiopia through Democracy (UMSED).