Eritrean National Identity
Posted: 19 Jan 2024, 20:56
An Eritrean poet writes the one titled Tortured Identity below. It reminds me the suffering of Eritreans in the Arab Passage in the hand of the Arab Rashayada and Bedouins in the Arab world.
The opportunist elite Arab slaves and concubines in the Eritrean political circles in Jebha and Shaebia had been telling the gullible Eritreans:
The poet writes, I had the Mereb River and the Red Sea in mind when I wrote a version of the following stanza in Eritrea, Eritreans and Eritreanism
Tortured Identity
They believed everything what the Arab slaves and concubines told them.
The opportunist elite Arab slaves and concubines in the Eritrean political circles in Jebha and Shaebia had been telling the gullible Eritreans:
... your enemy is the Ethiopian across the Tekeze river and the Mereb river, but the Arab Muslim across the sea and the desert is your brother to help and liberate you ...
The poet writes, I had the Mereb River and the Red Sea in mind when I wrote a version of the following stanza in Eritrea, Eritreans and Eritreanism
Tortured Identity
Below is the voice of young Eritreans in ordeal, begging for help in their own Tigrinya language, with English subtitles, who believed the Arabs were their brothers and sisters and they tried to meet them across the sea and the vast desert.When an idea
unable to wade through a shallow river
to meet a relative,
attempts to swim across a sea,
sharks claim it as their own.
They believed everything what the Arab slaves and concubines told them.
