{"id":277780,"date":"2019-06-01T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-01T16:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiZWh0dHA6Ly93d3cudGFkaWFzLmNvbS8wNi8wMS8yMDE5L2xpZmUtdGltZS1mcmllbmQtb2YtZXRoaW9waWEtcml0YS1wYW5raHVyc3QtMTkyNy0yMDE5LWJpby1hbmQtdmlkZW8v0gEA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-25T11:19:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T15:19:01","slug":"rita-pankhurst-librarian-and-long-time-friend-of-ethiopia-died-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277780","title":{"rendered":"Rita Pankhurst, librarian and long-time friend of Ethiopia, died at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On May 30, 2019, Rita Pankhurst died at 91 after more than six decades tied to Ethiopia as a librarian, writer, and partner of historian Richard Pankhurst; Tadias published a family biography marking her life.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-354823\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rita Pankhurst, librarian and long-time friend of Ethiopia, died at 91\" \/>\n<p>Born in Romania in 1927 and educated at Oxford, she worked at Ethiopia\u2019s National Library, the university\u2019s Kennedy Library, and the ECA library, wrote on Ethiopian women and Magdala\u2019s books, and later co-authored Ethiopian Reminiscences with Richard.<\/p>\n<p>She helped build Friends of the Institute of Ethiopian Studies networks and kept publishing on libraries, art, and cultural history into her final years while drafting a second reminiscence volume.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as history and culture archive, the Tadias obituary dates the end of one of the most enduring foreign scholarly lives woven into modern Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tadias.com\/06\/01\/2019\/life-time-friend-of-ethiopia-rita-pankhurst-1927-2019\/\">Tadias Magazine<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Life Time Friend of Ethiopia Rita Pankhurst (1927- 2019)&nbsp;&nbsp;Tadias MagazineRita Pankhurst, a life time friend of Ethiopia and the wife of the late historian Richard Pankhurst, died on May 30th 2019 at the age of 91. At the time of her death, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":354823,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Justice-ethiopia.jpg?fit=1023%2C583&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1agk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":755005,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277780\/revisions\/755005"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}