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Abel Tesfaye’s known through his music as a pretty moody dude, but it turns out the guy’s heart isn’t made of frozen Henny. Over the weekend, Tesfaye made a donation of $50,000 to the University of Toronto to help fund an Ethiopic Studies program. As he’s the child of Ethiopian immigrants himself, this is a pretty cool move on Tesfaye’s part to give back to his own community.
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The course that he just dropped 50K on will focus on the study of Ge’ez or Ethiopic, an millennia-old form of writing from the Horn of Africa. Read the Weeknd’s tweets below.
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