Re: Ema Zeyneb Yasin The fighter ,warrior and the legend
Indeed Mama Zeineb was a great revolutionary and poet. In one of her poems describing the ferocity of the sixth offensive, she used the line "ሓታ ለኢበን ነድድ ሃላ" which the historian Roy Pateman used as a title in his book "Eritrea: Even the Stones are Burning." I remember another couplet in a poem describing the multitudes of the Ethiopians who died uselessly,
As for the multitudes who fell
let for each one his own mother tell.
In 1986, she was asked "How old are you?" to which she responded 10 years. Her interviewer was puzzled whereupon she explained that the years before that don't count. It was after the EPLF liberated Afabet the first time in 1976 that she was liberated and started to live.
As for the multitudes who fell
let for each one his own mother tell.
In 1986, she was asked "How old are you?" to which she responded 10 years. Her interviewer was puzzled whereupon she explained that the years before that don't count. It was after the EPLF liberated Afabet the first time in 1976 that she was liberated and started to live.