Obituary

Abstract

With sadness and feelings of loss we recall the sudden and premature death of
Berhanu Gebeyehu in Addis Ababa on Monday 19 July 2010. Berhanu was an
Ethiopian scholar of literature, an Assistant Professor at Addis Ababa University and
a PhD student at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. He was also based at the
African Studies Centre in Leiden and was in the process of finalizing his PhD thesis
at the time of his death.