Dr. Gizachew Tiruneh speaks after being recognized by The Crown Council of Ethiopia.
University of Central Arkansas associate professor Gizachew Tiruneh was recognized by The Crown Council of Ethiopia for his outstanding scholarship on Africa, and particularly for his 2015 book, “The Rise and Fall of the Solomonic Dynasty of Ethiopia: Is the Kebra Negast a Time-Bound Document?”
Tiruneh has been made an officer of the Order of the Star of Honor of Ethiopia, one of the oldest orders of chivalry of the three-thousand-year-old Solomonic Dynasty. His Imperial Highness Prince Ermias Sahle-Selassie Haile-Selassie, the president of the Crown Council, formally invested Tiruneh with the Order at a special ceremony in Washington, D.C., Saturday, March 3, 2018.
Ermias said that Tiruneh’s broad body of research, analysis and writings not only helped the Peoples of Africa, and Ethiopia in particular but also reflected great credit on the work of UCA.
Ermias noted, “The great contributions made to Ethiopia and Africa by devoted individuals at the University of Central Arkansas has been remarkable, and the award to Dr. Tiruneh starts to recognize the debt which Ethiopia happily owes to its expatriates, and also to those non-Ethiopians in American academia who have helped preserve our culture and civilization.”