Download or read book I Will Not Grow Downward Memoir of an Eritrean Refugee written by Kenneth James Howe and published by Dreams of Freedom. This book was released on 2018-10-25 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I WILL NOT GROW DOWNWARD - MEMOIR OF AN ERITREAN REFUGEEONE MAN'S LONG AND PERILOUS FLIGHT FROM AFRICA'S HERMIT KINGDOM THIRTY YEARS OF BLOODY CONFLICT with a powerful enemy never broke the spirit of the Eritrean people. After winning their freedom from Ethiopia, a young man dreams of starting a new life, building a home, and teaching his children what it means to be the masters of their own fate. But all-too soon, the fighting resumes. Rounded up and forced into conscription, subjected to inhumane treatment, made to serve a despotic leader in an army fighting a war nobody wants, he will have to sacrifice much just for a chance to get back what he lost - his family, his freedom, his birthright. But will it be worth it? Or will he simply lose everything in the end? I Will Not Grow Downward offers an exceedingly rare glimpse inside the highly secretive and brutally repressive regime known as Africa's North Korea. The Dreams of Freedom storiesOne family, two powerful accounts of love, heartbreak, and determination from one of the world's most isolated and abusive governments in modern history. It's 1991, and a bloody thirty-year conflict with Ethiopia has just ended, earning Eritrea its first taste of freedom in over a century. But peace is a delicate flower, and power is all-too easily corrupting. Soon, the small Horn-of-African nation will find itself at war once again, back in the familiar stranglehold of despotism, except this time it will be at the hands of its own beloved leader and war hero. Families are torn apart, suspicion and desperation grow. Human rights are violated. In the midst of worsening oppression, one man and one woman will risk everything to save their children from this life of violence and give them the future they once imagined for themselves.. Relentless - An Immigrant Story by Wudasi Nayzgi and Kenneth James Howe I Will Not Grow Downward - Memoir Of An Eritrean Refugee by Yikealo Neab and Kenneth James Howe RELENTLESS - AN IMMIGRANT STORYONE WOMAN'S DECADE-LONG FIGHT TO HEAL A FAMILY TORN APART BY WAR, LIES, AND TYRANNY SOON AFTER RETURNING FROM EXILE to a war-torn Eritrea, a young mother receives a devastating medical diagnosis for her first-born child, but adequate treatment is unavailable inside her own country. Meanwhile, her desperate search elsewhere is abruptly thwarted by a new outbreak of fighting and an untested government determined to win at any cost. With her husband forced into conscription, with time and options running out, she must make a terrible decision - stay where she is and jeopardize the life of one child, or flee her beloved homeland, leaving her husband and second daughter behind... possibly forever. Relentless is the powerful and inspiring story of an Eritrean woman who faced incredible obstacles, defied a ruthless regime, and never gave up fighting for the only thing that matters: family. "There is a proverb in my native Tigrinya language, both warning and admonishment. It goes like this: Haki tseraba mot keraba. It means, if you speak the truth, you will gather many enemies."
Download or read book I Will Not Grow Downward Memoir Of An Eritrean Refugee written by Yikealo Neab and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yikealo was a young father when his government rounded him up and sent him to one of the deadliest places on the planet to learn how to kill. It would take years of hard sacrifice just to regain his freedom... and more than a decade of uncertainty just for a chance to see his family again. “As for walls and fences to pen us in, there are none. We are free to leave, if we choose, but there is nowhere for us to go and almost certain death for anyone who tries.” Yikealo Neab was born into a bloody conflict his grandparents started and grew to adulthood watching the same conflict take his friends and threaten his children. After being forcibly conscripted and sent to the Danakil Depression, where more than just the extreme heat and old Russian landmines can kill, he must face the very real possibility that, should he manage to survive, he might never see his family again. I Will Not Grow Downward is a heartbreaking memoir of struggle and determination, of loss and exile... and ultimately of redemption. Yikealo’s story is a powerful reminder of the strength of the human spirit to endure, particularly of those living in violence and oppression and those fleeing from them. It offers students of contemporary East African history an exceptionally rare glimpse inside the highly secretive and brutally repressive regime known as Africa's Hermit Kingdom, but it is also a gift and an inspiration for anyone searching for proof that faith and perseverance can overcome even the most insurmountable of obstacles. I Will Not Grow Downward is part of the Dreams of Freedom collection, stories of resilience from Eritrea, the small war-torn nation known as the North Korea of Africa.
Download or read book The Dreams of Freedom Bundle written by Wudasie Nayzgi and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bundle includes the Eritrean diaspora memoirs: Relentless- an Immigrant Story I Will Not Grow Downward Two stories from one family, torn apart by war, and their desperate struggle for reunion, peace, and place to call home.
Download or read book Relentless An Immigrant Story written by Wudasie Nayzgi and published by Brinestone Press. This book was released on 2023-09-28 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As war rages in her beloved homeland and her husband is taken away to fight in it, a young mother faces the most difficult decision of her life -- which of her two precious daughters can she save... and which must she sacrifice. This is the story of one mother’s heroic struggle to rescue her family from the clutches of uncertainty and oppression. There is a proverb in my native Tigrinya language, both warning and admonishment. It goes like this: Haki tseraba mot keraba. It means: If you speak the truth, you will gather many enemies. Well, I say let them come. Let them see how the pain they have inflicted has made me who I am: Relentless. Eritrean by blood, Wudasie Nayzgi was raised deep in the heart of neighboring Ethiopia, a nation that for generations after the Second World War refused her people their independence. After a bloody 30-year war ends the violent reign of brutal Ethiopian dictator Emperor Haile Selassie, Wudasie returns to her ancestral homeland, a stranger in search of her roots and a chance to raise a family. For a while, it seems her dreams are within reach. But soon, new threats arise, coming from old enemies, as well as new. Her husband is forcibly taken off the street to fight another war, and her oldest daughter is diagnosed with a life-threatening heart defect. With the borders sealed shut, an increasingly paranoid government resorting ever more to violence and suppression, and medical treatment unavailable in-country, her only remaining option to save her daughter’s life might not be so viable after all. For even if the government allows her to leave, doing so could end up shattering more lives than it saves. Relentless is the powerful memoir of a wife and mother who refused to compromise and instead defied one of the world’s most corrupt and murderous regimes, and after decades of personal struggle and sacrifice finally found peace and redemption. A heartbreaking story for the ages with an inspiring outcome that celebrates the strength, determination, and heroism of women everywhere. Relentless is part of the Dreams of Freedom collection, stories of resilience from Eritrea, the small war-torn nation known as the North Korea of Africa.
Download or read book Gratitude in Low Voices written by Dawit Gebremichael Habte and published by RosettaBooks. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A candid, inspiring memoir of cultural and historical importance” from an Eritrean-Ethiopian War refugee (Michael Bloomberg). Dawit Gebremichael Habte fled his homeland of Eritrea as a teenager. In the midst of the ongoing Eritrean-Ethiopian war, Dawit and his sisters crossed illegally into Kenya. Without their parents or documents to help their passage, they experienced the abuse and neglect known by so many refugees around the world. But Dawit refused to give up. He stayed resilient and positive. Journeying to the United States under asylum—and still a boy—Dawit found a new purpose in an unfamiliar land. Against impossible odds, he studied hard and was accepted to Johns Hopkins University, eventually landing a job as a software engineer at Bloomberg. After a few years, with the support of Michael Bloomberg himself, Dawit returned to his homeland to offer business opportunities for other Eritreans. Dawit found a way to help his ancestral land emerge from thirty years of debilitating war. Gratitude in Low Voices is about how one man was marginalized, but how compassion and love never abandoned him. It’s about learning how to care for family, and how to honor those who help the helpless. This account reminds us that hope is not lost. “An inspiring memoir by Dawit Gebremichael Habte, who poignantly portrays his childhood in Africa and his struggles as a refugee to the United States . . . This book is a reaffirmation of the good that people can do and how one young man succeeded despite the odds against him.”—Foreword Reviews
Download or read book Lonely Without Me written by J. W. Habtom and published by . This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My love to the rain, thoughts on the political and social situation in Eritrea and Africa as a whole; thoughts on travelling, life and death; stories of Eritrean refugees; stories of other friends I made on the way; stories that seemed small at times but very much close to my heart.My new dream is to spend more time helping people, and it is perhaps the most glorifying, most fulfilling, most important of my dreams. It will require me to keep on trying-to learn to make a bigger difference in my life, in the lives of others, and in the world in general. I want to knock at the doorsteps of missions, the people and organizations who can use my help. I want to go where I am needed, and I will keep on trying. We can't stop trying; our success depends on us not yielding. Our future depends on getting up and dusting ourselves off whenever we fall down. The future of the young and the old at home and abroad depends on those who want to make a difference. One's life can't be stalled simply because one is chased away from home.
Download or read book Building the Impossible A Refugee s Journey of Giving Back written by Zebiba Shekhia and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-01-19 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Mothers knew what they needed: a high school for our girls. It's an impossible request, for these mothers barely subsist in the Eritrean refugee camps in the Eastern Sudan. It is a hostile, barren environment, devoid of water, food, even basic sanitation. Zebiba Shekhia and the Eritrean people had endured so much up to this point: the brutality and genocide perpetrated on Eritrea by Haile Selassie and then the notorious dictator, Mengistu; the hardship of fleeing her own country under cover of night as the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea raged overhead. She made it to America, but would the same determination to find a better life hold her through her darkest moments? Would she be able to keep her promise and find a way to get that high school for girls built? Be inspired by Zebiba's tenacity as she found a way to help the mothers and daughters of her homeland find a better life through education.
Download or read book Joseph Woldu More Than a Survivor written by Wesley Powell and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-29 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book chronicles the journey of Eritrean born Joseph Woldu. As a child refugee he found himself having to adapt to changes of place, language and customs; then as a man forced to relearn much of the same after involvement in a disastrous accident two days before the 9/11 terrorist attacks. What makes Joseph's story so incredible is not that he survived change and tragedy, but how he continually found the strength to improve himself and his circumstances. His story reflects the importance good relationships play in our lives.Through the many life challenges Joseph has faced, his greatest lesson learned is survivors must allow others into their lives in order not to be "just" a survivor. This book tells how Joseph became "more than a survivor." It was written with the hope to help other survivors in the world. We are "All" survivors!
Download or read book Running for My Life written by Lopez Lomong and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers the true story of a Sudanese boy who, through unyielding faith, overcame a wartorn nation to become an American citizen and an Olympic contender.
Download or read book The Boy who Never Gave Up written by Emmanuel Taban and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Haben written by Haben Girma and published by Twelve. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible life story of Haben Girma, the first Deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School, and her amazing journey from isolation to the world stage. Haben grew up spending summers with her family in the enchanting Eritrean city of Asmara. There, she discovered courage as she faced off against a bull she couldn't see, and found in herself an abiding strength as she absorbed her parents' harrowing experiences during Eritrea's thirty-year war with Ethiopia. Their refugee story inspired her to embark on a quest for knowledge, traveling the world in search of the secret to belonging. She explored numerous fascinating places, including Mali, where she helped build a school under the scorching Saharan sun. Her many adventures over the years range from the hair-raising to the hilarious. Haben defines disability as an opportunity for innovation. She learned non-visual techniques for everything from dancing salsa to handling an electric saw. She developed a text-to-braille communication system that created an exciting new way to connect with people. Haben pioneered her way through obstacles, graduated from Harvard Law, and now uses her talents to advocate for people with disabilities. Haben takes readers through a thrilling game of blind hide-and-seek in Louisiana, a treacherous climb up an iceberg in Alaska, and a magical moment with President Obama at The White House. Warm, funny, thoughtful, and uplifting, this captivating memoir is a testament to one woman's determination to find the keys to connection. "This autobiography by a millennial Helen Keller teems with grace and grit." -- O Magazine "A profoundly important memoir." -- The Times ** As featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, and on The TODAY Show ** A New York Times "New & Noteworthy" Pick ** An O Magazine "Book of the Month" Pick ** A Publishers Weekly Bestseller **
Download or read book Beneath the Lion s Gaze A Novel written by Maaza Mengiste and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-01-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An important novel, rich in compassion for its anguished characters." —The New York Times Book Review This memorable, heartbreaking story opens in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1974, on the eve of a revolution. Yonas kneels in his mother’s prayer room, pleading to his god for an end to the violence that has wracked his family and country. His father, Hailu, a prominent doctor, has been ordered to report to jail after helping a victim of state-sanctioned torture to die. And Dawit, Hailu’s youngest son, has joined an underground resistance movement—a choice that will lead to more upheaval and bloodshed across a ravaged Ethiopia. Beneath the Lion’s Gaze tells a gripping story of family, of the bonds of love and friendship set in a time and place that has rarely been explored in fiction. It is a story about the lengths human beings will go in pursuit of freedom and the human price of a national revolution. Emotionally gripping, poetic, and indelibly tragic, Beneath The Lion’s Gaze is a transcendent and powerful debut.
Download or read book Silence Is My Mother Tongue written by Sulaiman Addonia and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensuous, textured novel of life in a refugee camp, long-listed for the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction On a hill overlooking a refugee camp in Sudan, a young man strings up bedsheets that, in an act of imaginative resilience, will serve as a screen in his silent cinema. From the cinema he can see all the comings and goings in the camp, especially those of two new arrivals: a girl named Saba, and her mute brother, Hagos. For these siblings, adapting to life in the camp is not easy. Saba mourns the future she lost when she was forced to abandon school, while Hagos, scorned for his inability to speak, must live vicariously through his sister. Both resist societal expectations by seeking to redefine love, sex, and gender roles in their lives, and when a businessman opens a shop and befriends Hagos, they cast off those pressures and make an unconventional choice. With this cast of complex, beautifully drawn characters, Sulaiman Addonia details the textures and rhythms of everyday life in a refugee camp, and questions what it means to be an individual when one has lost all that makes a home or a future. Intimate and subversive, Silence Is My Mother Tongue dissects the ways society wages war on women and explores the stories we must tell to survive in a broken, inhospitable environment.
Download or read book Insurgent Fragmentation in the Horn of Africa written by Michael Woldemariam and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When insurgent organizations factionalize and fragment, it can profoundly shape a civil war: its intensity, outcome, and duration. In this extended treatment of this complex and important phenomenon, Michael Woldemariam examines why rebel organizations fragment through a unique historical analysis of the Horn of Africa's civil wars. Central to his view is that rebel factionalism is conditioned by battlefield developments. While fragmentation is caused by territorial gains and losses, counter-intuitively territorial stalemate tends to promote rebel cohesion and is a critical basis for cooperation in war. As a rare effort to examine these issues in the context of the Horn of Africa region, based upon extensive fieldwork, this book will interest both scholarly and non-scholarly audiences interested in insurgent groups and conflict dynamics.
Download or read book The Path of a Genocide written by Astri Suhrke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Lakes region of Africa has seen dramatic changes. After a decade of war, repression, and genocide, loosely allied regimes have replaced old-style dictatorships. The Path of a Genocide examines the decade (1986-97) that brackets the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. This collection of essays is both a narrative of that event and a deep reexamination of the international role in addressing humanitarian issues and complex emergencies.Nineteen donor countries and seventeen multilateral organizations, international agencies, and international nongovernmental organizations pooled their efforts for an in-depth evaluation of the international response to the conflict in Rwanda. Original studies were commissioned from scholars from Uganda, Rwanda, Zaire, Ethiopia, Norway, Great Britain, France, Canada, and the United States. While each chapter in this volume focuses on one dimension of the Rwanda conflict, together they tell the story of this unfolding genocide and the world's response.The Path of a Genocide offers readers a perspective in sharp contrast to the tendency to treat a peace agreement as the end to conflict. This is a detailed effort to make sense of the political crisis and genocide in Rwanda and the effects it had on its neighbors.
Download or read book Woldeab Woldemariam written by Dawit Mesfin and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a journalist and activist in the 1940s and '50s, Woldeab Woldemariam is acclaimed by Eritreans as the father of their national movement. Surviving numerous assassination attempts, he not only fashioned Eritreans' agenda for liberation but also became the finest writer of Tigrinya, the country's leading language. Woldeab's persistent and principled appeals to the Eritrean leadership for unity, tolerance and democracy enhanced his popular standing but led to his unjust neglect by the national authorities. Dawit Mesfin's biography at last extends Woldeab the recognition he has long deserved.
Download or read book Gold from the Stone written by Lemn Sissay and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lemn Sissay was seventeen when he wrote his first poetry book, which he hand-sold to the miners and millworkers of Wigan. Since then his poems have become landmarks, sculpted in granite and built from concrete, recorded on era-defining albums and declaimed in over thirty countries. He has performed to thousands of football fans at the FA Cup Final, to hundreds of thousands as the poet of the London Olympics, and to millions across our TV screens and the airwaves of BBC Radio. He has become one of the nation's best-loved voices.
