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Dr. 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 Second 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

Early Life
Dr. Malaku Emmanuel Bayen was born on April 27, 1900, in Wollo Province, in central Ethiopia. He grew up in Harar, in the palace of Tafari Makonnen, the future emperor of Ethiopia and his mother's first cousin. Coming from an aristocratic family, Bayern was educated by priests, under the tutelage of Ras (Grand Duke) Tafari. At the age of 21, Bayen was selected by Ras Tafari to be educated abroad, and after around a year spent in India to receive a British education, Bayen asked to be transferred to the United States, where he moved in April 1922. The same year, under President Warren G. Harding's suggestion, Bayen applied to Muskingum College in New Concord, Ohio, where he was admitted in 1925 and obtained his first degree three years later, becoming one of the first Ethiopians to obtain a degree in the United States. Subsequently, in 1928, Bayen was admitted to the School of Medicine at Howard University in Washington (one of the most prestigious black educational institutions in the United States), where he pursued his second degree. In a book written in 1939 by Bayen himself, the physician stated that the decision for matriculating at a black university was related to his desire of being in “closer contact with [his] people.” During his years at medical school, Bayen met an American girl, Miss Dorothy Hadley of Chicago, for whom he decided to break his engagement with the daughter of the Ethiopian Minister of Foreign Affairs. In 1931, Dr. Bayen and Miss Hadley got married in Fairfax, Virginia, and in 1933, their first son, Malaku Bayen, Jr., was born.