EURWeb – The diverse crowd gathered on this beautiful day in Southern California to celebrate the first book launch from TSEHAI’s imprint, the Harriet Tubman Press: Voices from Leimert Park Redux: a Los Angeles Poetry Anthology. This day also celebrated TSEHAI’s 20th Anniversary as well as it’s 10th Anniversary on the campus of Loyola Marymount University. The […]
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A panel discussion entitled “The Power of the Press”. Moderated by Angela Rye Panelists Congresswoman Karen Bass, Shonda Buchanan, and Elias Wondimu. They spoke on the vitality of expressing the ethno-American experience through a literary, academic lens, especially during these intense times of burgeoning xenophobia. The radical voices of writers, poets, musicians, and other artists […]
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ECADEF Media – Whenever and wherever he pauses to communicate, be it in interviews, friendly chats, academic discussions, or in speeches he delivers, Elias Wondimu returns to a common phrase: building bridges. It is like a mantra for him. For all his focus on bridges, he is not a civil engineer in the traditional sense of […]
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LOS ANGELES SENTINEL – TSEHAI Publishers recently announced that Editorial Director and founder Elias Wondimu will be receiving one of the Ethiopian Crown’s most distinguished awards: the Grand Officer of the Imperial Order of Emperor Menelik II. The award was founded in 1924 during the reign of Empress Zauditu and intended for highly distinguished individuals, […]
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ESAT – Engidu Woldu, EthioScope host, interview with Elias Wondimu Tsehai Publishers was founded in 1998 by Elias Wondimu, an Ethiopian exiled journalist. In September 1994, he left his country to participate the Twelfth International Ethiopian Studies conference at Michigan State University in East Lansing, but his three weeks travel became indefinite. Later that year, […]
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LMU MAGAZINE – Elias Wondimu spent his first 20 years growing up in Ethiopia, a country riven by civil war, ethnic conflict and economic chaos. One of the casualties of that strife has been the nation’s history itself, which leaders have often rewritten or erased. As a young man, Wondimu opposed his government as an activist. […]
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ABIYA MAGAZINE – Now more than ever knowledge, information, and what we hold to be true have become so malleable by media and historical truths. Most times, our identities are shaped by certain perceptions of knowledge through books, articles, and societal and cultural norms. Storytelling through black ownership and creation is becoming significant, prominent, and […]
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EBS – የርዕዮት አዘጋጅ ቴዎድሮስ ፀጋዬ ከኤልያስ ወንድሙ ጋር ያደረገው ቃለመጠይቅ። ርዕዮት ፕሮግራም የኢትዮጲያና ኢትዮጵያዊነትን ሁለንተና የሚቃኝ፣ የሀገርንና የህዝብን ጉዳዮች በብዙ መንገዶች ተደራሽ የሚያደርግ፣ በርካታ ዝግጅቶችና አቀራረቦች ያሉት የሚድያ ተቋም ነው፡፡ Tewodros Tsegaye, host and producer of EBS’ Reyot program, interview with Elias Wondimu. Reyot Media expounds on everything Ethiopian across multiple platforms and formats […]
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PUBLISHERS WEEKLY – Tsehai Publishers, which focuses on books about Ethiopian and African issues, is about to expand its publishing program to include African-American works. In collaboration with Loyola Marymount University, where it is located, Tsehai is launching a new imprint called the Harriet Tubman Press that will released trade fiction, nonfiction and academic titles. […]
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KPCC RADIO – It can be hard for African-American authors to get published. The publisher of Harriet Tubman Press, a new imprint announced this week, knows what it’s like to struggle to get your voice out. That publisher, exiled Ethiopian journalist Elias Wondimu, told KPCC that he came to America but found that information isn’t […]
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