Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:09:52 +0200Czech Ambassador to Ethiopia Pavel Mikeš: ‘If you wait long enough, an egg will walk on two legs’https://english.radio.cz/czech-ambassador-ethiopia-pavel-mikes-if-you-wait-long-enough-egg-will-walk-two-8121073© 2026 Radio Prague InternationalPavel Mikeš, the Czech Ambassador to Ethiopia, studied African History and Linguistics at Charles University in the 1980s. Despite not being allowed to travel to the continent under communism, he managed to learn fluent Swahili and Amharic, the dominant Ethiopian language, along with English and French. After a long career in academia, he joined the Czech Foreign Ministry in 1999, and has since served as head of mission or ambassador in several other African countries. Along the way, he has written books on the history and geography of Ethiopia, and on traditional East African wisdom – collections of Amharic, Somali and Swahili proverbs.encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/mikes_pavel.jpg?timestamp=1590370740 Czech Ambassador to Ethiopia Pavel Mikeš: ‘If you wait long enough, an egg will walk on two legs’ https://english.radio.cz/czech-ambassador-ethiopia-pavel-mikes-if-you-wait-long-enough-egg-will-walk-two-8121073 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9