Kwasi Ngozi

== Early Life ==
Kwasi Ngozi was born the only child to Hail Ngozi and Zaudita Ngozi in 1939 rural Ethiopia. When Italian control of Ethiopia ended in 1941 the Ngozis moved into the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa. Kwasi's parents believed strongly in education and managed to send him all the way through high school although he did not attend college.
== Journalist ==
At the young age of 18 in 1957 Kwasi Ngozi became a journalist for the Ethiopian Reporter's local Addis Ababa branch. He managed to prove himself as a journalist quite quickle and at only 22 in 1961 he became a journalist for the papers national version. He eventually became the papers most influental and successfull political reporter/collumnist and continued in this role until 1970.
In 1970 the 31 year old Ngozi started his own paper, the "Ethiopian Democrat." The paper was relativly partisan in favor of social democratic reforms but was strongly opposed to the Communists. It became relativly successfull and continued as such until 1974 when a military socialist coup took over the country and Ngozi was forced to flee Ethiopia.
== Exile ==
Ngozi fled to London where he would stay for the next 17 years. He continued to publish his paper and personally refused to recognize the Ethiopian goverment. During this time he also wrote political commentary off and on for several local London newspapers.
== Return to Ethiopia ==
In 1991 the military socialist goverment of Ethiopia was overthrown and Kwasi Ngozi returned to Ethiopia as a delagate to their new contitutional convention. After the convention Ngozi joined the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front. In the 1995 elections, the first free elections, he was elected to the upper house of the Ethiopian parliment. 
He continued in this role until 2000 when he replaced a retiring minister as minister of Foreign Affairs. 
== President ==
In 2010 Kwasi Ngozi was chosen as the 2nd prime minister of Ethiopia.