Malaku E. Bayen

Malaku E. Bayen
Born(1900-04-29)April 29, 1900
Wollo Province, Ethiopia
DiedMay 4, 1940(1940-05-04) (aged 40)
Rockland State Hospital, Orangeburg, New York, U.S.
Alma materMuskigum University, Howard University School of Medicine
Known forPan-Africanism, Ethiopian World Federation
SpouseDorothy Hadley
ChildrenMalaku Bayen Jr.

Malaku Emmanuel Bayen (April 29, 1900 – May 4, 1940) was an Ethiopian activist, best known for founding the Ethiopian World Federation (EWF), together with his uncle Haile Selassie, the Emperor of Ethiopia. During the Second Italo-Ethiopian War in 1935, he became the Emperor's personal physician, working as a doctor for the Ethiopian army. Following the invasion of Addis Ababa, Bayen fled with Emperor Selassie and eventually traveled to the United States to serve as Selassie's personal envoy. Until his early death in 1940, Bayen devoted himself to the cause of Ethiopian liberation and Black unity.

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