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Life and ministry
Bekele Nunamo was born in _ _ _.
He was a brother of Abba Gole Nunamo, one of the early Protestant leaders (then residing in Dubancho).
Bekele Nunamo was the other person besides Erjabo Handiso, who frequently provided songs to SIM missionaries (for the Words of Life audio tracts, etc.)
Bekele Nunamo taught at a Kale Heywet Elementary School and was part of Abebe Bushero’s 1951 opposition group that led to the founding of the “Kambata Evangelical Church 2”, i.e. the later South Central Synod of the Mekane Yesus Church.
Further reading
Grenstedt, Staffan. Ambaricho and Shonkolla: From Local Independent Church to the Evangelical Mainstream in Ethiopia; The Origins of the Mekane Yesus Church in Kambata Hadiya. Uppsala: Swedish Institute of Missionary Research, 2000. [Read digital version, Diva Portal]