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By Ezekiel Gebissa

Addis Abeba – The passing of Andreas Eshete, a philosopher and former president of Addis Abeba University, has brought to light the significant life he lived as an intellectual giant and a very humble man.

I met professor Andreas in 2018 at a meeting in Addis Abeba.

I never got a chance to get to know him better. Some friends promised to arrange for me to meet him on many occasions. One such promise occurred last June. But fate and time never converged for me to meet the scholar and the man my friends hold with great affection and gratitude.

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Now, he belongs to the ages. 

In my view, Andreas Eshete was a leading edge of the Ethiopian Left, whose ideas and work defined and continue to shape contemporary Ethiopia.  He is not considered one of the “radicals” of the 1960s generation.

He was among the deeply erudite and cerebral cohort known for their perspicacious minds and idealist aspirations. His passing marks the passing of the “greatest gene