Walda Heywat was an Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially known as the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a country located in the Horn of Africa. It is the second-most populous nation in Africa, with over 82 million inhabitants, and the tenth-largest by area, occupying 1,100,000 km2...

n philosopher

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

. He was the student of Zera Yacob

Zera Yacob

Zera Yacob was a seventeenth century Ethiopian philosopher. His 1667 treatise, known in the original Ge'ez language as the Hatata, has often been compared by a handful of non-traditional scholars to Descartes' Discours de la methode in...

, whose Work he continued in his "Treatise of Walda Heywat" (written in Ge'ez

Ge'ez language

Ge'ez is an ancient South Semitic language that developed in the northern region of Ethiopia and southern Eritrea in the Horn of Africa...

). He was the son of Habta Egziabher (called Habtu), a friend of Zera Yacob in the town of Emfraz

Emfraz

Emfraz or Enfraz is a historic town and district in northern Ethiopia...

, where Zera Yacob spent the second part of his life. Zera Yacob was the teacher of the sons of Habtu and introduced Walda Heywat to his philosophy.

It was Walda Heywat for whom Zera Yacob wrote his "Treatise of Zera Yacob", describing both his life and his thoughts.