Ethiopia and abroad. Besides these compositions, Gabre-Medhin translated Shakespeare (Hamlet and Othello being the most popular of these works and directed by Abate Mekuria), as well as Molière's Tartuffe and Le Médecin malgré lui, as well as Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage. Gabre-Medhin's poems, in Amharic and English, were also widely read. A score of them, including "Prologue to African Conscience" and "Black Antigone", were published in the Ethiopia Observer in 1965. Another poem, in Amharic, castigated the European nomenclature for the waterfalls of Sudan and Egypt – which totally ignored those of Ethiopia, and caused Gabre-Medhin proudly to refer to the Tis Abay, or Blue Nile Falls, as the "Zero Cataract". Quotes "walk in the footprints of his ancestors. This land is a museum of man's ancient history. The American has gone to the moon and found dust, he's going farther away to look for other planets, very good. But know thyself first. That is what I would tell my American friend" —Interview on what Ethiopia means to the average American Publications Collision of Altars (Drama, 1977) Oda Oak Oracle (Drama, 1965) See also Gibreab Teferi Befeqadu Hailu References External links Literature and the African Public, By Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin Tribute to Tsegaye Gabre Medhen Tezeta.org An Ethiopian hero: Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin by Richard Pankhurst McKinley, Jesse (9 March 2006). Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin Dies; Ethiopian Poet Laureate, 69. New York Times Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin: Patriot and Pastoral Poet, Ethiopia Observer 1936 births 2006 deaths Ethiopian novelists Ethiopian poets Ethiopian dramatists and playwrights Ethiopian essayists 20th-century poets 20th-century dramatists and playwrights Academic staff of Addis Ababa University 20th-century essayists Amharic-language writers Oromo people