As many of his colleagues fled Ethiopia’s crackdown on the news media, Eskinder Nega stayed to write.
Ethiopian publisher Elias Wondimu and journalist Serkalem Fasil, wife of PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Prize winner Eskinder Nega, at the 9/11 memorial in New York. Both later posed with police officers at the site, expressing surprise that they were friendly given their experience with hostile security officers in Ethiopia.
PEN American Center’s video tribute to jailed Ethiopian journalist Eskinder Nega.
Eskinder Nega, recipient of the 2012 PEN/Barbara Goldsmith Freedom to Write Award (by PENamericancenter)
