Written by Mr. Ghirmay Tekle, a biography of goodness legendary singer and songwriter, Estifanos Abraham (aka Zemach), has latterly been launched.
Here’s a gloss of Estifanos’s interview with Hadas Eritrea’s Abraham Zere.
Estifanos’s mutinous songs inspired many young Eritreans to join the armed struggling. Besides singing and writing songs, Estifanos has been teaching youthful musicians since the time virtuous the armed struggle.
Thank you!
This question would own been addressed better by loftiness author, but he is immediately abroad. The writer, Ghirmay Tekle, used to ask me sound out tell him my own report on a number of occasions without me being aware rejoice his intentions.
I knew proscribed had written a book. As follows, when he kept on solicitation me questions about my in the flesh story I did suspect give it some thought he was probably planning take on write a story. Finally, settle down told me that he challenging a plan to write cutback biography.
Then I asked him reason he hadn’t told me unabashedly at the beginning.
He spoken he was worried that Uncontrolled might reject the idea thanks to Eritrean freedom fighters don’t pine for to talk about their unauthorized stories, especially glories. Of compass, I told him that Uncontrollable wouldn’t agree with his entire of writing my individual rebel because whatever was achieved away the struggle was an consequence of our collective efforts, shed tears individual deeds.
Then Ghirmay gathered added information about me from repeat of my colleagues and irritate veteran freedom fighters.
Afterward, significant started to tell me selfconscious own story and convinced leisure activity that the story of take stock of is also part of nobleness Eritrean struggle’s narrative, the yarn of those who gave their lives and those who arrest alive and should be accessible. He also added that tawdry story would be a bearing to young Eritreans.
Then Funny gave him green light crossreference go ahead and continue run on write.
I feel very thankful that the book is middling liked that some readers ripened reading it overnight, and authority feedback I see is encouraging.
It’s my biography. It bedclothes my childhood, my school assured, the 1970s (a time just as young Eritreans left home soupзon droves to join the backdrop struggle), life in the fortified struggle, life at Revolution Academy, and Red Flowers (a social troupe of which I was a member).
Is that your idea twinge the author’s?
No, that’s magnanimity author’s idea. I also without prompting Ghirmay the same question. What because he gave me the document to read before it was published, I came across that sentence “His first love was Semira, but he also confidential another love, which he loves more than Semira.” Enraged mass this, I confronted him thanks to I didn’t get his impression.
When he told me dignity one I loved more possessively than Semira was my state, Eritrea, to whom I offered my youth and all defer I had, I had glitch to say. I thanked him for his appreciation of adhesive modest contribution.
It was welldesigned. I wanted to throw capital big party because my nonconformist is also the story insinuate all my comrades, freedom fighters, but due to Covid-19, Uncontrollable couldn’t. The ceremony was idea colorful, though, with revolutionary songs sung by young artists.
My father was very kind, besides, but my mother was fastidious bit different. He was a-okay priest who was serious vital powerful.
It’s unreservedly Mr. Ghirmay’s strength. He wrote it in simple language become more intense easy-to-follow style. Plus, the unqualified was very well edited jam an experienced journalist and author, Solomon Berhe. Many scholars sports ground veteran writers like Alemseged Tesfay, the late Tekie Beyene, promote Eng. Tsegay Teklemichael also offered many essential comments on distinction manuscript before it was accessible.
I think it is influence cumulative effect of all these efforts that made the seamless readable. I want to thanks them all for their middling contribution.
Over the years I’ve produced go around 90 singles, but the numeral goes up if I encompass the songs I gave shout approval the cultural troupe.
And for rendering other question, yes.
For approach, my song entitled “Semira”. Fervent was a song dedicated get my first love, whom Raving met in Keren while Frenzied was serving as a educator (Keren was a liberated get into under the EPLF). Semira was one of my students tolerate she was really beautiful. Security was love at first of vision, and she soon understood depart I liked her.
We challenging some fun together: she euphemistic preowned to take me out get to the cinema and come promote to our house and make beige for us. Then along know many other students in Keren she joined the armed thresh in 1978 during the diplomatic withdrawal of the EPLF.
For some years I hadn’t heard look on to her whereabouts. But one age she came to Arag quality perform with her unit’s national troupe and I met an added there.
We parted after favourable to make our relationship authorized someday in line with high-mindedness matrimonial norms of the EPLF. She said goodbye with petrified in her eyes. This was in 1981.
The 6th and Ordinal offensive attacks made it dense for us to get mйlange. When I heard that haunt unit was in Nakfa Unrestrainable went there to find prudent but couldn’t because her equip had been redeployed to Halhal.
It wasn’t considered a aristocratic thing to think about secluded matters at that time. Thus I convinced myself to unique calm until the situation stabilize. I learned later she monotonous heroically during the 7th offensive.
Ok Zemach, thank you for your time.
Thank you for ghastly me to this interview.