Tomb of Sylvia Pankhurst

Addis Ababa


Facing the entrance to the Holy Trinity Cathedral is the tomb of the famous British suffragette Sylvia Pankhurst. Pankhurst was one of the very few people outside Ethiopia who protested Italy’s occupation; she moved to Addis Ababa in 1956.


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