Richard Pankhurst, the son of the British women's rights campaigner Sylvia Pankhurst who became one of the world's leading experts on Ethiopian history and culture, has died aged 89. He also inherited an activist streak from his mother and his grandmother, Emmeline Pankhurst, founder of the suffragette movement, which helped secure the right for British women to vote. The British Embassy said Pankhurst had died on Thursday,Ethiopia's Foreign Ministry called him a "doyen of historians and scholars of Ethiopia". "Pankhurst was one of Ethiopia's greatest friends during his long and productive life, and his scholarship and understanding for Ethiopia will be sorely missed," it said in a statement. © RAW 2017TRENDING VIDEO Pet redback spider attacks trapped brown snake A group of tradies have filmed a redback spider descending its web to bite a young brown snake.

Source: Ethiopian News February 17, 2017 20:15 UTC