Imperial Academy (Ethiopia)

The Imperial Academy was the national academy of Ethiopia, first established by the Ministry of Education and Fine Arts in 1942.[1] It was tasked with preserving the "traditional genius" of the country; among other things, the native Ethiopic script and the literary and scholarly tradition it enabled, as well as the "promotion of research in languages and fine arts".[1][2]

In 1956, Emperor Haile Selassie promulgated a decree chartering the Academy as an independent organisation.[2] The Academy, as a single body, eventually ceased to operate during the time of the Derg regime in the 1980s, although some of its constituent organizations have persisted - directly or indirectly - to the present.[2]

  1. ^ a b Hordofa Janko, Kebede (2003). Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: D-Ha. p. 410. ISBN 9783447052382. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  2. ^ a b c Fishman, Joshua A. (2011). In Praise of the Beloved Language. A Comparative View of Positive Ethnolinguistic Consciousness. Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton. pp. 186–7. ISBN 978-3-11-081324-1.