Adamu Walelign, Faculty
Professor of English
By Stephanie Lyman
Centennial Oral History Project
SDCC History and Political Science Department
2.
Dr. Adamu Walelign
• Place of Birth:
Debre Marqos,
Ethiopia
• Population
93,877,025
3.
Growing Up
Afterhis eleventh
year in high school
Dr. Walelign
transferred to a
trade school called
Haile Selassie I
University.
4.
“I loved readingfrom the beginning”
Went to school to become an English
teacher.
5.
Moving Towards theFuture
• Attended University
of London on a
British Council
Scholarship from
1977 to 1978.
• Studied courses on
teaching English as
a foreign language.
6.
Saudi Arabia
•Before he completed
his Master’s degree
he went to Saudi
Arabia as an English
language instructor
at King Saud
University (1980-
1989)
7.
Dr. Adamu Walelign
Graduated with
his Ph.D. in 1996
while he was
working at San
Diego City College.
8.
Centennial Oral HistoryProject
is available online:
City College LRC/Library - LRC Archives Webpage
Centennial Oral History Project
SDCC History and Political Science Department