Woldeab Woldemariam - A Visionary Eritrean Patriot, A Biography
Woldeab Woldemariam - A Visionary Eritrean Patriot, A Biography by Dawit Mesfin
As a journalist and activist in the 1940s and 50s, Woldeab Woldemariam is acclaimed by Eritreans as the father of their national movement. Surviving numerous assassination attempts, he not only fashioned Eritreans’ agenda for liberation but also became the finest writer of Tigrinya, the country’s leading language. Woldeab had always stood and appealed for Eritrean unity, tolerance and democracy. His life story has been unjustly neglected.
Dawit Mesfin’s fine biography at last extends Woldeab the recognition he has long deserved according to Alex DeWaal, a writer and researcher on African issues and the Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation. Dawit Mesfin has produced a biography as brave and iconoclastic as the man himself, rescuing Eritrean nationalist Woldeab Woldemariam from the obscurity that threatened to engulf his life’s work according to Michela Wrong, author of I Didn’t Do It for You: How the World Used and Abused a Small African Nation.
Even after death, they tried to silence him. By shining light on the life of this extraordinary nationalist hero Dawit Mesfin makes a major contribution to Eritrean history according to Koert Lindijer, writer and Africa correspondent for NRC Handelsblad.
Woldeab Woldemariam - A Visionary Eritrean Patriot, A Biography by Dawit Mesfin