Andon Çako, widely identified as “Çajupi” was born March 27, 1866.  After completing his basic education, he would leave Zagoria to join his father, Harito Çakos, an activist in the patriotic movement. There he would attend a French college, from which he cultivated diverse knowledge. Equipped with a European worldview, he would head to Geneva, where he studied law from 1887 to1893. Further, he settled in Cairo and began practicing law. He would give it up to dedicate himself to the patriotic movement of the Albanians in the settlements of Egypt. He became the protagonist figure of the patriotic and cultural society there, through efforts to ensure the protection of the interests of Albania and the Albanian people.

The poetic collection “Father Tomorr” (1902) stands out as his main work. “Tales of La Fontaine” was published in 1921, “Flowers of India” in 1922, a series of poems of Sanskrit literature. His pen was also praised in the field of journalism of the time, especially with the pamphlet “Thessaloniki Club” (1909).

Meanwhile, he left in manuscript most of his works, as we can mention the poem “Baba Musa naked”, the tragedy “Man of the Earth” and the comedy “After death”. Çajupi died in Cairo on July 11, 1930.

/Klara Ruci/