Awards Pagume Award On Sunday March 12th, 2017, the Pagume Ethiopians Entertainment Center honored Amb. Ahadu Sabure, Prof. Adugnaw Worku, and Elias Wondimu in recognition for their contributions to the Ethiopian community in Los Angeles and abroad. Elias Wondimu was awarded for the preservation and dissemination of knowledge (social and political history of Ethiopia—among other things) through providing a publishing

Awards Grand Officer of the Imperial Order of Emperor Menelik II On February 25, 2017, The Crown Council of Ethiopia named Elias as the recipient of one of the Ethiopian Crown’s most distinguished awards, Grand Officer of the Imperial Order of Emperor Menelik II, for his outstanding contributions over many years to scholarship on Ethiopian and African issues. The medal