Yet New?
ISBN-13: 9781569028582
Contributor(s): Kebedech Tekleab
Subjects: Poetry
Publisher: Africa World Press
Publisher Imprint: The Red Sea Press
Publication Date: 31-10-2024
Format: Paperback
Availability: In stock
£19.99
About the book
Kebedech Tekleab's poetry book 'Yet New?' was written during the poet's ten years of imprisonment in Somali labor camps as a young girl because of the Ethio-Somali war in the late 1970s. The poems were direct accounts of her lived experiences in the prison camps, where thousands of civilian men, women, children, and war prisoners were subjected to forced labor in the camps that were hidden from the world. Those poems became the first window that cracked open the lives of the prisoners so the world could see a glimpse of them. The first edition of the collection that was initially written in hiding on peelings of medicine packages was published in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, upon her repatriation in 1989. This book is in Amharic.