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HAMID IDRIS AWATE (1911–1962). As the man who fired the first shots of the armed struggle, Hamid Idris Awate has been claimed by all Eritrea’s liberation movements. A complete account of his life has been published in Tigrinya in 2018. (ሓምድ እድሪስ ዓዋተ - ብሃይለስላሴ ወልዱ ISBN 978-99948-0-170-1 ኣገልግሎት ማሕተም ሳቡር፡ ኣስመራ፡ 2018).
Hamid was born to the Hafara clan of Tigre-speaking agriculturalists, a people of Nilotic origin settled east of Tessenei and related to the Algheden, Bit Hama, Illit, and Sabderat but linked politically to the Beni Amer. Hamid’s mother was said to be Nara.
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