Gebre Hanna

Aleqa Gebre Hanna (flourished late 19th century) was a dabtara (a lay person of religious learning) of the Ethiopian Church, renowned in Amharic oral tradition for (to quote Donald Levine) his "his quick and biting wit." He was a master of the genre of Amharic poetry known as qene, as well as introducing a new style of ceremonial dancing to the Ethiopian Church.

Read more about Gebre Hanna:  Life, His Wit

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    Yabba dabba do!
    —William Denby Hanna (b. 1910)