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Malaku Emmanuel Bayen (April 29, 1900 – May 4, 1940) was an Ethiopian activist, best known for founding the Ethiopian World Federation (EWF), together with Haile Selassie, former Emperor of Ethiopia. During the Italo-Ethiopian war in 1935, he became the Emperor’s personal physician, working as a doctor for the Ethiopian army.2 Following the invasion of Addis Ababa, Dr. Bayen fled with Emperor Selassie and eventually traveled to the United States to serve as Selassie’s personal envoy.3 Until his early death in 1940, Dr. Bayen devoted himself to the cause of Ethiopian liberation and black unity.4