Welcome to One Day Seyoum’s monthly book club! This club is an opportunity for our members to become more informed as a community using diverse readings covering multiple Eritrean topics. Our hope is to learn from this knowledge and from one another thus strengthening our understanding of Eritrea to better execute our human rights work.
JANUARY/ FEBRUARY:
Conversations with Eritrean Political Prisoners
By Dan Connell
Conversations with Eritrean Political Prisoners reproduces interviews with five prominent critics of Eritrea's slide into one-party despotism—top government officials and liberation movement leaders—shortly before they disappeared into a secret prison. Since then, none has been seen, heard from or accounted for.
Dates:
● February 28th, 2021 at 19:00 - 20:30 CET, 10 AM PST, 1PM EST, 6PM GMT
● January 31st, 2021 19:00 - 20:30 CEST, 10 AM PST, 1PM EST, 6PM GMT
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DECEMBER:
The Conscript: A Novel of Libya's Anti Colonial War
By Hailu Gebreyesus
Eloquent and thought-provoking, this classic novel by the Eritrean novelist Gebreyesus Hailu, written in Tigrinya in 1927 and published in 1950, is one of the earliest novels written in an African language and will have a major impact on the reception and critical appraisal of African literature. The Conscript depicts, with irony and controlled anger, the staggering experiences of the Eritrean Ascari, soldiers conscripted to fight in Libya by the Italian colonial army against the nationalist Libyan forces fighting for their freedom from Italy’s colonial rule.
Dates:
● December 31st, 2020 at 19:00 - 20:30 CET, 10 AM PST, 1PM EST, 6PM GMT