Dr Kebede Michael's poetry book ታሪክና ምሳሌ

 Reading is good for you because it improves your focus, memory, empathy, and communication skills. It can reduce stress, improve your mental health, and help you live longer. Reading also allows you to learn new things to help you succeed in your work and relationships. The purpose of reading is to connect the ideas on the page to what you already know. If you don't know anything about a subject, then pouring words of text into your mind is like pouring water into your hand.

Five benefits of reading

  • Increase your vocabulary and comprehension skills.
  •  Reading strengthens your brain, 
  • helps you widen your vocabulary and aids in your ability to comprehend information. ...
  • Reduce stress. ...
  • Help you prepare to sleep. ...
  • Prevents cognitive decline. ...
  • Might even help you live longer. ...

  • If i have told you this much about reading, now the book I invite you to read is poetry. I hope you like it. Let me tell you a little about the book.

  • Dr. Kebede Michael was one of the great thinkers in the field of education and literature in Ethiopia. He wrote a total of 26 books including a wide range of translations from various languages. From 1940 to 1970, he wrote Amharic school textbooks in which he provided generations of Ethiopian students with literature filled with knowledge and information about a wide range of issues and disciplines. His writings are in both prose and poetry and his poems follow rhyming and writing styles of his own. He translated, among many others, Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth of William Shakespeare. Kebede Michael's literary works reflect on the many shades of character and behaviour of the Ethiopian society. The contents of many of his books are on history, education, development, philosophy, religion, science and so on. He worked as an inspector in the Ministry of Education, as Deputy Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1942), as Director of the National Library (1944), Director-General of the Ministry of Education, and as a Cabinet Minister in the Imperial Palace. He was a regular Ethiopian delegate to many international conferences at the United Nations in New York. He received the first Prize for Literature from the late Emperor Haileselassie. He also received awards from governments of France, Germany, Italy, USSR and Mexico. In 1990, he received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Addis Ababa University for his unparalleled excellence in literature as well as for inspiring generations of Ethiopian authors and writers. Dr. Kebede Michael died on 12 November 1998 at the age of 82. No other Ethiopian in the country's history so far has been able to write as extensively on a wide variety of disciplines as did Kebede Michael. His contributions are enormous to the development of education and literature in Ethiopia.
  • Michael, Kebede

    Tarik Ena Misale (Stories and Examples) is an Ethiopian classic book presented in poetic form by the prominent author and poet Kebede Micahael, Hon Dr. This book is a graphic presentation of three selected stories form Tarik Ena Misale. All stories are given in both Amharic and English.

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    Dr Kebede Michael was one of the giants in the field f education and literature in Ethiopia. He wrote a total of 26 books including a wide range of translations from various languages. From 1940 to1970, he wrote Amharic school textbooks in which he provided generations of Ethiopian students with enlightening ideas about a wide range of issues and disciplines.
    His writings were in both prose and poetry and his poems follow rhyming and writing styles of his own. He also translated – among many – Romeo and Juliet, as well as Macbeth of William Shakespeare. Kebede Michael’s literary works reflect many shades of character and behavior of the Ethiopian society. The contents of many of his books are on history, education, development, philosophy, religion, science and so on. 
    He worked as an inspector in the Ministry of Education, as Deputy Director in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1942), as Director of the National Library (1944), as Director General of the Ministry of Education, and as a Cabinet Minster in the Imperial Palace. He was also delegated to many international conferences including at the United Nations in New York.
    He received the first Prize for Literature from Emperor Haileselassie. He also received awards from governments of France, Germany, Italy, USSR and Mexico. And in 1990, he received an Honorary Doctorate Degree from Addis Ababa University for his unparalleled excellence in literature as well as for inspiring generations of Ethiopian authors and writers. 
    Dr. Kebede Michael died on 12 November 1998 at the age of 82. No other Ethiopian in the country’s history so far has been able to write as extensively on a wide variety of disciplines as did Kebede Michael.
    His contributions are enormous to the development of education and literature. And he may be deceased, yet his legacy will live on forever; and Ethiopians are greatly thankful to him

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