 Mengistu was the Director General, Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs; Secretary General of the Ethiopian Literary Society; Council Member on the Ethiopian National Council for UNESCO; Council Member of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church Evangelical Council.On the basis of his outstanding contribution to Amharic literature, he was awarded the 1967 Haile Selassie I Prize Trust Award.Different social and political, as well as traditional and cultural issues dominate the plays of Mengistu Lemma