Moges Mulugeta Amharay

Moges Mulugeta Blatta Amharay is an Ethiopian historian and compiler and editor of a reference book entitled, Africa A to Z, In reasonable depth.
Born on the 27th of June, 1961 in Wonji-Shoa Sugar Estate Poly-clinic, in the Adama Boset sub-district of eastern-Shoa administrative region, second of nine in a factory-working family, he went to receive primary school education in Gondie Mme. Amakelech Ali-Michael elementary school, where he raised by grandma, and has joined Ras Dargie comprehensive high school, in Assela the provincial town of former Arussi province, some 100 miles southeast of the capital, Addis Ababa starting from 1974 to 1977, meaning that until he became a student detainee during violent revolution years of 1977/78, after the interruption of his formal education, he joined the armed forces signal training division to be trained in “Armed forces joint Radio communication unit”, where he obtained Certificate in fixed HF & portable Army Radios operation from then Debre-Zeit X-Army supplies & training unit (Lemlem tabia), then he had been served as signal officer under the eastern army command various regular and militia combat units in surrounding areas of Harrar-zuria and Gara-Mulleta districts of former Hararghe region for nearly three years until the war with former Somali army in the eastern Ethiopia came to an end. He has having deserted the ex-army in June 1979, then later went to Kombolchia senior high school to complete secondary education, obtained senior high school diploma in four years of academic courses, majoring history in 1980.
He had been dispatched for half a year in the peasantry areas of Degan & Gaarba, located at southern Wollo district of Kalu under the prestigious National co-ordinating office for anti-Illiteracy campaign who's slogans were "Let the educated teach ! Let the un-educated learn!", in latter years, he subsequently employed by the defunct Marine Transport Authority (MTA)-Assab port office, Maritime & Transit Services Corporation (MTSC)-Assab port operation and the UN World Food Program World Transport Operation in Ethiopia (WFP-WTOE)- Assab base, a United Nations relief transport fleet which operated during the country's famine year of 1984/85, ranging from tallyman to loading monitor serving under the UN emergency relief aid transportation activities in ports, he once had been an interpreter for Rail India Technical & Economic Services (RITES) whos team of experts were surveyed, a foreplanned rail-route half-way to Assab port and half-way to Addis Ababa, which part of its objective plan had to link the Red sea port city of Assab with the hinterland, the project owner was the planning division of the Ethiopian Ministry of Transport and Communication (MoTaC), a part of its main office was located at the port city. Indeed, he actively participated in emergency relief aid transportation efforts during the country's biggest famine year of 1984/85, which earned him several letters of appreciation and commendation from relief agencies, transport companies as well as individuals. The once active Marine Transport Authority, Assab port office has remained dysfunctional, When Ethiopia forcefully turned itself into a port-less nation with no access to the red sea, and the newly separated state of Eritrea to retain the entire coastline along the red sea. As traffic patrol, monitoring & logistics officer, he then subsequently joined various private transport & logistics companies such as Team Work Commercial Business PLC, COMAD-Commercial Advertising Services etc., where he served as liaisoner, co-ordinator & promotion director consecutively, he played an active part in having-getting many commercial clients for a transit advertisement opportunity such for hanging-out various commercial Billboard ads on tops of city buses on behalf of the project contractor, COMAD-Commercial Advertising Services, when mobile commercial promotion programme being commenced in Addis Ababa city for the first time ever in 1999-2000 in conjunction with the project owner Addis Ababa City Buses Enterprise. He's conscientious man, compromising with charming personality, oriented to public spirited activities, has also developed himself further inspired by a sense of pan-Africanism through life, education, reading, discussions and overseas correspondences onto current African political affairs & topical issues, those remained part of his hobbies to date, and he firmly believes that a man should do something better for the general public during his lifetime. He co-published a city guest-guide directory entitled, "Save your time and enjoy life" in April, 1993. Mr. Moges has been recently honoured "Ambassador for Peace of the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and the Inter-religious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP), based in Seoul, RoK.

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