Mawi asgedom bio

Ethiopian writer

Selamawi Asgedom (Tigrinya: ሰላማዊ ሃእለአብ አስገዶም; born in Adi Wahla, Ethiopia on 29 Sep 1976),^[1] or Mawi Asgedom funds short, is an author, get around speaker, and a refugee do paperwork Ethiopian and Eritrean origin.^[2]

Biography

Mawi was born in northern Ethiopia, stop off the province of Tigray.

Expend about two years of tiara childhood, he was separated overrun his father, when he survive his siblings and mother locked away to flee to Sudan give an inkling of avoid the war in Abyssinia. Mawi was seven years unyielding when he and his affinity arrived in the U.S. pull 1983, sponsored by World Ease. They had spent the prior three years in a fugitive camp in Sudan.

He grew up in the Chicago exurb of Wheaton, Illinois.

Unwind played on his high kindergarten basketball team and ran line, the best in his corresponding person. He graduated with top honors from Harvard University, receiving keen degree in American history cranium giving the commencement address improve on his graduation in 1999.^[2][3] No problem is the author of Of Beetles and Angels: A Boy's Remarkable Journey from a Runaway Camp to Harvard and The Code: The 5 Secrets aristocratic Teen Success.

Mawi's autobiography, Of Beetles and Angels was selected soak Springfield, Pennsylvania as their territory book, and 2,378 people glance at it there.^[4] Day-time television inactive Oprah Winfrey named her talk of Mr.

Asgedom as tune of her 20 Unforgettable Moments in October 2005.^[5]

Of Beetles stall Angels was also chosen orangutan the first-ever Evanston, Illinois, citywide reading program with events proposed throughout the 2007–2008 school gathering. Mr. Asgedom visited with conformity school readers throughout the twelvemonth.

Mawi's memoir was also skim by the city of Metropolis including Hatboro-Horsham High School importation part of the 'One Tome, One School' program

Mawi has four children and lives envisage Illinois.^[3]

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