From ShuroMeda to Deputy Director-General of UNESCO in Paris'- The journey of a humble lad from Ethiopia A Daughter’s Account

Abstract

My father, Getachew Engida, was born and raised in a small impoverished area in the
north of Addis Abeba, Ethiopia, called Shuromeda. Shuromeda is shanty but pleasant
village of multi-ethinic Ethiopians from all over the country, who settled there to service
the landed-gentry of Emperors Menilik and Haile Selassie I.