Oromay

Oromay
Author: Baalu Girma
Publsiher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2025-01-16
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781529428407

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A lost classic - a thrilling political satire, and a turbulent tale of love and war. In early 1982, the Ethiopian government launched an audacious effort to subdue the long-running Eritrean insurgency. All the top Ethiopian officials, including Baalu Girma himself, were ordered to Asmara, the capital of the Eritrean province, to carry out the "Operation Red Star"-three months of economic, propaganda, and military initiatives intended to crush the insurgency and impose socialism on Eritrea. It did not go as planned, derailed by the increasing corruption, brutality, and ineptness of the regime. Girma, as head of propaganda, had a front-row seat for this, and used the Red Star Campaign as the basis of his sixth novel, Oromay. Oromay, a political satire, was published in Ethiopia in the summer of 1983, became an instant sensation, and is today generally considered the most famous Ethiopian novel. While the romantic and thriller elements drew a large readership, its unflinching portrayal of the regime, the Red Star campaign and its missteps was unprecedented in the highly censored literature under the Derg. Within days of its publication, the regime realized that Girma had gone rogue. They immediately fired him, banned Oromay, and sent soldiers into bookstores and markets to confiscate copies. Six months later, on February 14, 1984, Baalu Girma vanished in suspicious circumstances - his car was found at the side of a road. His fate continues to be the subject of intense speculation and investigation, but no definitive evidence has emerged. However, the consensus (including that of PEN International) is that he was kidnapped and murdered by the regime in retaliation for Oromay. Translated from Amharic by David DeGusta

Oromay

Oromay
Author: Bealu Girma
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 187
Release: 2021-03
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 9798709022348

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This is the first complete English translation of Bealu Girma's classic. Originally published in 1983 in Ethiopia, the novel served as a critical account of the Red Star Campaign, the Communist Derg government's attempt at a final comprehensive victory over the secessionist rebellion in Eritrea. A passionate and turbulent story of love and war, Oromay mocked high-level members of Ethiopia's communist regime and criticized the Derg's actions in Eritrea. The criticism contained in this incisive political allegory put Bealu in considerable danger owing to the repressive environment in which it was published. The novel was almost immediately banned after publication. Government officials attempted to confiscate all available copies but bootleg versions continued to circulate. In the aftermath, Bealu was fired from his job in Ethiopia's Ministry of Information and a few months later disappeared. It is generally believed that he was abducted and killed on the orders of government officials in retaliation for Oromay. Bealu's life had a dramatic arc of its own. Born in rural Ethiopia to an Ethiopian mother and Indian father, he was a graduate of Addis Ababa University and later studied journalism in the United States. In addition to serving as editor of several of Ethiopia's most respected magazines and newspapers (including Addis Zemen and The Ethiopian Herald) he also worked as a civil servant in Ethiopia's Ministry of Information. This position allowed him access to government officials during both the Imperial and Communist governments. Prior to Oromay, he wrote five other popular and critically-acclaimed Amharic-language novels: Beyond the Horizon, The Bell of Conscience, The Call of the Red Star, Haddis, and The Author. His integrity as a journalist, courageous criticism of repressive regimes, and martyrdom to the cause of literary freedom make him a significant figure in modern Ethiopian history and Amharic literature.

Modernist Art in Ethiopia

Modernist Art in Ethiopia
Author: Elizabeth W. Giorgis
Publsiher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 487
Release: 2019-02-11
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780821446539

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If modernism initially came to Africa through colonial contact, what does Ethiopia’s inimitable historical condition—its independence save for five years under Italian occupation—mean for its own modernist tradition? In Modernist Art in Ethiopia—the first book-length study of the topic—Elizabeth W. Giorgis recognizes that her home country’s supposed singularity, particularly as it pertains to its history from 1900 to the present, cannot be conceived outside the broader colonial legacy. She uses the evolution of modernist art in Ethiopia to open up the intellectual, cultural, and political histories of it in a pan-African context. Giorgis explores the varied precedents of the country’s political and intellectual history to understand the ways in which the import and range of visual narratives were mediated across different moments, and to reveal the conditions that account for the extraordinary dynamism of the visual arts in Ethiopia. In locating its arguments at the intersection of visual culture and literary and performance studies, Modernist Art in Ethiopia details how innovations in visual art intersected with shifts in philosophical and ideological narratives of modernity. The result is profoundly innovative work—a bold intellectual, cultural, and political history of Ethiopia, with art as its centerpiece.

Northeast African Studies

Northeast African Studies
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 340
Release: 1999
Genre: Africa, Northeast
ISBN: MINN:31951P00996211R

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Black Lions

Black Lions
Author: Reidulf Knut Molvaer
Publsiher: Red Sea Press(NJ)
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1997
Genre: Amharic fiction
ISBN: UVA:X004103290

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This is a fascinating portrait of Ethiopian writers of fiction of the 20th century and an in-depth analysis of the history of the development of Amharic literature and those who have shaped it. The range of writers covered varies from the aristocrats, educators and pioneers to the latest revolutionary writers. A vivid picture of the personal development and progress of these writers is given, as well as the impact these writers have had on Ethiopian society at large in changing old ideas, contributing towards the modernization of the country and revolutionizing the educational, social and political systems. All in all, this volume presents the portraits and sketches of thirty-two Ethiopian writers, including such notable literary giants as Hiruy Welde-Sillase, Girmacchew Tekle-Hawariyat, Kebede Mikael, Haddis Alemayehu, Abbe Gubennya, Mammo Widdneh, Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin, Mengistu Lemma, Dannyachew Werqu, Birhanu Zerihun, and last but not least Be'alu Girma.

Oromay

Oromay
Author: Baalu Girma
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2024-06-20
Genre: Electronic Book
ISBN: 1529428394

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The Tenacity and Resilience of Eritrea

The Tenacity and Resilience of Eritrea
Author: Tekeste Fekadu Gebrihiwet
Publsiher: Hdri Publishing
Total Pages: 368
Release: 2008
Genre: Autonomy
ISBN: UCSC:32106019818498

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Tekeste Fekadu's The Tenacity and Resilience of Eritrea chronicles his country's armed struggle for independence from 1979 -1983 from the standpoint of an Eritrean war surgeon, continuing the story he began in his previous, much acclaimed account of the war from 1976 - 1979, Journey from Nakfa to Nakfa. Offering frontline, graphic eyewitness testimony of the massive and unrelenting sacrifice of human lives that the war demanded, Tekeste Fekadu also tells a compelling story of a physician's war to save them. He and his colleagues battled their terrible injuries, diseases and psychological suffering as tenaciously as the vastly outnumbered Eritrean armed forces fought six, large-scale Ethiopian military offensives - yet with as few precious resources. He established what was unprecedented on any previous African battlefield: effective, comprehensive and compassionate medical care - whether it required the setting up or tearing down of hospitals on the frontlines or the most delicate surgery and intensive care in trenches and underground wards under bombardment. Also dedicating himself to combating the array of problems suffered by Eritrea's equally unprecedented dependence on a female fighting force, Tekeste Fekadu fought for the recognition of women's unique health issues, ranging from the reproductive cycle to the challenge of negative sexual stereotypes. In a world in which the annals of war are many and often remarkable, Tekeste Fakudu's personal story of Eritrea's armed struggle is inimitable.

Climatological Data

Climatological Data
Author: Anonim
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 568
Release: 1995
Genre: Colorado
ISBN: IND:30000090055934

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