 January 2nd, 2008 by Celeste Fremon Here are ten New Year’s wishes from ten Los Angeles residents who care deeply about our glorious and difficult city. Tsehai's own, Elias Wondimu is in the list that includes Jeff Carr, Steve Barr, Oscar Garza, Sergio Diaz, Jorja Leap, George Gascon, Marc Cooper, and Greg Boyle.
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At a ceremony held in Washington, DC, Tsehai Publishers founder and Ethiopian social entrepreneur, Elias Wondimu, was appointed Ambassador for Peace by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and the Interreligious and International Federation for World Peace (IIFWP).
The Ambassadors for Peace is a global network of leaders from religion, politics, the media, academia, and civil society working cooperatively for the sake of world peace.
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 "...Wondimu had made a promise to himself. When he first heard several Leimert Park poets reading their work at the birthday party of his friend Shonda Buchanan, he was amazed at their powerful messages. That night, he told Buchana the work had to be published.
"I felt guilty just for taking the poetry in and not sharing it with the outside world," says Wondimu, founder of Tsehai Publishers. "The longer you stay in the media, you cease to be a person and you become a conduit … Flash forward five years and now the world has become like myself at that time in that room."
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 by Giulia Bonacci Lire le sommaire Les nouvelles d'Addis n° 51
15 janvier-15 mars 2006 Elias Wondimu est un personage haut en couleurs, qui ne cesse de communiquer les passions qui l'agitent. Journaliste et activiste ne en 1973 a Addis-Abeba, il vient en 1994 aux Etats-Unis pour une conference et, menace en Ethiopie a cause de ses activites, il decide d'y rester. Editeur aupres de VEthiopian Review jusqu'en 2000, il y entend les auteurs ethiopiens se plaindre de n'etre ni publies ni distribues et comprend le besoin d'offrir des travaux sur des sujets africains a un large public. |
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LOS ANGELES – LA Weekly featured Tsehai Publishers and its founder and publisher Elias Wondimu in its June 3-9, 2005 issue of its annual literary supplement. This special issue entitled “Publish or Perish: LA's burgeoning publishing scene” featured profiles of 18 independent presses. Tsehai Publishers, Santa Monica Press, Bukamerica, Red Hen Press, Angel City Press and Tam Tam Books are the few. Anthony Miller, the author of the article entitled “Ethiopian Dreams: Elias Wondimu and the art of bridging continents” said Wondimu created a “vital and indispensable resource”.
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