Dear Compatriot Asaminew Ewnetun and Aradom Fedai Haqi.
At the outset let me thank you for enlightening us on the delusionary and inconsequential behaviour of the self-righteous individuals who speak in the name of our beloved country. In this connection may I share with you what still has left me astounded about the author whose work you have eloquently reviewed. As you may recall a certain Eritrean who used to manage the Red Sea Corporation was charged with embezzlement and lending public funds to relatives. At that time our learned professor defended the manager as having done nothing wrong and argued that the monies were given with the intention that the relatives will pay the corporation at alter date. What! Give me a break lamented my 20 year old daughter at that time. Lending public funds to family members is OK? And this comes from the mouth of a professor of law? And we said to each other in Tigrigna ’’Wey good, good bele engliz’’!
I also remember him by way of responding to Prof. Mesfin Woldemariam who he accused him of dismantling the country (Ethiopia) which gave him education. The dialogue between the two went something like this:
Prof. Mesfin- ‘’ ante bereket yastemarehn ager tafersowaleh endye’’
Prof. Berket- ‘’ mefres kalabet ma lemn ayfersm’’ And now he wants to see Eritrea come under Ethiopian feet before he dies! What a shameful metamorphosis.
Now to serious matters. Your critical and positive comments are very valuable. But more fundamentally, your review exposes the falsehood and pseudo-intellectual ramblings that mar the Eritrean liberation struggle and this is of paramount importance. Forget some of the lost souls that espouse him. This review is useful to those academics that may know him but know him little. Your review is not a chorus of insults as happens in the cyberspace but a serious and objective work pursued and examined with sufficient vigour.
I commend you for coming with a critique that is overwhelmingly positive and educative. Your ending complement also shows your good will and honest intentions. What I also find interesting is the style of your review which ranges from the general to the specific so that the reader is being made aware how much serious and potentially useful information has been ignored and or has been deliberately omitted by the author. Your suggestion for deeper and objective works that can lead to a better understanding of the history of the creation of our nationhood is spot on! Terrific stuff and makes good read!
