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From: Elias Amare Gebrezgheir (eliasamare@yahoo.com)
Date: Thu Apr 29 2010 - 19:57:11 EDT
Selam Dehai,
Please find attached in pdf format a Tigrinya poem for Prof Tekie Fessehatzion titled "tekie aymoten" (Tekie is not Dead) by Ato Tekie Beyene. Vetran
EPLF fighter, and former Governor of the National Bank of Eritrea, Ato Tekie Beyene
is an accomplished writer, whose book of memoir in Tigrnya, "kab riQ - Hfnti", covering the period from late 1950s to 1979, has been published in
Asmara by Hdri Publishers in 2009. In this poem, Ato Tekie Beyene
eulogizes his longtime friend since childhood, the late Prof. Tekie
Fessehatzion. In a funeral ceremony attended by hundreds of well-wishers and admirers, family members and friends, as well as government
officials, ministers and veteran fighters, Prof. Tekie Fessehatzion was laid to rest at Asmara's Haz-Haz Cemetery on
Wednesday, 28 April 2010.
Elias Amare
Asmara, Eritrea
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"The struggle is a long and difficult one.
Therefore, mask no difficulty, tell no lies
and claim no easy
victory."
--Amilcar Cabral