Nov 7, 2017
After being exiled from Ethiopia, his homeland, Elias Wondimu turned to producing books that help document his country’s history. Wondimu is now publisher of LMU’s Marymount Institute Press and Tsehai Publishers, which together have created the Harriett Tubman Press, an imprint devoted to African-American fiction and nonfiction. He discusses his former life under the military socialist government of Ethiopia and the need he felt to save his nation’s history from the whims of political reinterpretation.