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This is an introduction into the nature of the repressive traditional Landlord (Shimagle) and Tenant system that dominated northern and western Eritrean lowland region, until it was completely abolished by the EPLF in the 1970s.
It is also about the Khatmiyya Sufi authority, the al-Mirghani family, and Eritrean nationalism during British Occupation, 1941–1949.

“Serfs,” Civics, and Social Action: Islamic Identity and Grassroots Activism during Eritrea’s Tigre Emancipation Movement, 1941–1946
by Joseph L. Venosa
This article examines the growth of political activism within various Tigre-speaking communities across Eritrea during the early and mid-1940s. Using previously overlooked archival as well as oral sources, it explores how some tigre “serfs” became increasingly proactive in challenging their subordinate position against local landlords, even as communities experienced a haphazard transition from Italian to temporary British colonial rule. Refusing to comply with the traditional payment of customary dues and taxes to local landlords, disenfranchised tigre across Eritrea’s Western Province pressed their claims for economic and even political independence. In the process, some tigre leaders also demonstrated the complex and often problematic nature of Islamic “identity” as the emancipation movement expanded. Activists’ overall success also depended upon their ability to articulate a broad, Islamic inspired understanding of the need to rectify social and economic injustice, even though such actions challenged the existing religious institutions and authorities in the region, particularly the leadership within the dominant Khatmiyya Sufi order. Ultimately, the surge in antifeudal activism helped enrich the emerging public discourse across the colony, which fused ideas of political independence with the need to ensure the collective security of the region’s various Muslim communities, including those residing beyond the country’s Tigre-speaking areas.

This is what the mentally enslaved who want to be more Arab than the Arab do not want you to know. Here is the link to the article
https://www.jstor.org/stable/islamicafrica.4.2.165

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