Speakers

ROOTS International Arts Alliance, Inc and
The Ethiopian Holocaust Remembrance Committee
www.rootsinternational.net
110^th Adwa Celebration Committee

Friday, March 3, 2006
University of the District of Columbia
University Auditorium, Building 46 East
UDC Van Ness Campus
4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington , D.C. 20008

110^th Adwa Victory Celebration
Organizing Committee

500 East 33rd Street #1100
Chicago , IL 60616
Tel. 312-225-6000
e-mail ethiopianholocaust@sbcglobal.net

7835 Eastern Avenue Suite # 200A
Silver Spring , MD 20910
Telephone# 240-381-6559
e-mail: dmelake@gmail.com

The following guest speakers confirmed:

Dr. Erku Yimer
Executive Director
Ethiopian Community Association of Chicago
and International Board Member of
the Ethiopian Holocaust Remembrance Committee.

Dr. Getachew Metaferia
Morgan State University

Dr. Theodore M. Vestal
Professor of Political Science
Oklahoma State University

Dr. Bekele Molla
President/CEO of Haile Selassie I International
Development Foundation

Dr. Paulos Milikias
Concordia College

Imani Kali-Nyah: ('Woletta Selassie Haile Selassie)
Chair/CEO, Ethiopian Holocaust Remembrance Committee Goodwill Ambassador, St. George Church
Mussolini's Revenge for Italian Losses At Adwa:
The Ethiopian Holocaust of 1935-1941.

Dr. Mesfin Araya
City University of New York

GUEST SPEAKER

Kengatzmatch Azebite Hailemariam (Patriot of the Ethiopian Holocasut -- joined the war at 13 years old Gurilla Warrior) - GUEST SPEAKER -- Amharic

Presentor (introduce Kengatzmatch Azebite)

Ato Mokennen Wobie - Retired Pilot Imperial Ethiopian Air Force, His Majesty's personal assistant;

Taiytu Entertainment

Artist Alemtsehay Wodajo, Artist Behailu Mengesha, Artist Shambel Belayneh, Artist Wondwossen, More to come.

ON VIDEO TAPE (He passed away in 2004 months after the interview)

Colonel Berhane Christos - former member Imperial Ethiopian Air Force - recollections from his childhood about the terror of fascist occupation during the February 1937 massacres....preserved on videotape before he passed on in 2004.

Presenter (present Nyabinghi Drummers & Choir) - ENTERTAINMENT

Father Mikael Gabriel - Edler Rastafarian Priest from Jamaica

Special Cultural Entertainment (African-culture): Mekidah - ENTERTAINMENT

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