Fagret: The Female Survivor
The survivor of Ona- Eritrea and her immigrant life in USA
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In remeberance to all Eritrean martyrs, hereby, I the local poet tried to inciate my book by a poem "symbol of a struggle".
Symbol of a struggle
The eastern suburb hill, surounded by mountains Etaber, Ziban, Lalumba, Senkil. My childhood remeberance, I see you twinkle. How are you Ona the symbol of struggle.
To write about you and be loud, sharpenned my pen for you my soul, to fulfill my duty and be resposible. To you only Ona the symbol of struggle.
More than three decade ago, you were peaceful and beautiful, until the enemy made you ash and rabble. How are you Ona the symbol of struggle.
The meeting place of merchants, a small village and humble, how are you Ona the symbol of struggle.
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The idea of writing a book, was in my mind for a long time. To realize it into print I needed a better time and opportunity. To say the truth, in the monastery where I used to live, I wouldn't express myself in writing as I am doing now. My conscience was not free. If I do so, I would lose my reputation. As the Abyssinian saying goes, "Be free and then act, for your acts are now changed". I followed the exact letter of the saying. I firmily believed while I was in the monastery, I wouldn't write about a subject that never concerned the religious matter.
Ona's massacre was the main drive I had since I started writing about it. To write a discent story on a forgoten experience of the locals ( the Eritrean people) motivated me greately. To begin with hope and poceed with courage was my aim when I started it. Though the manuscript was finished in 2002 I was not able to put in print until 2007.
In my mind I designed it to be one book, but within the process, it became two. I decided to write it in a local language of Tigrina, but I ended up publishing it in English.
Writing about two stories at the same time, for me was, about dealing with two stories, files, works and preocupations. Of course it was not that easy. It was very time consuming. At the begining I looked very disorganized, but within the process I learned a lot. At last I came out with two manuscript.
"Fagret" in Tigre language means a female survivor. I tried to composed the story based on a true story of a survivor in the massacre of Ona, (a village at the out skirt of Keren town).
About the Author
If a poet could ever realize to recount a story, this is Hiabu. The first book of try out “Fagret: The female survivor fashioned my mind freshly. At last to see my voice (the voice of an immigrant) put into print added enthusiasm over enthusiasm.
During all this time of my stay in
“Mr. International” they call me the co-workers and the friends since they see me interacting in English, French, Italian and Spanish. “Mr. Philosopher” they say when I raise a political, social and religious matter.
I was born in 1957, grew up in Keren-Eritrea. I went to
As the title indicates “ Fagret: the female survivor”, is a story I composed based on a true story of a survivor in the Massacre of Ona, a village in the outskirt of Keren town. The true survivor might be living in