Alemseged tesfai biography of michael

A slight version of this has been published in the Journal of the African Literature

Association: (JALA), Vol 12, No.

2 (August )

Part 1

1. Political History Based on Meticulous Research

Alemseged Tesfai, a renowned Eritrean writer, has authored three history books in the Tigrinya language. In this review, I refer to the three publications collectively as his trilogy in the sense that the three, though separate, are interrelated.

The content of the trilogy is primarily political history of Eritrea, covering to , the formative decades of Eritrean political consciousness and nationalism. The first book is aptly titled, Aynfalale (loose translation, “No Disunity”) , pages. The second is Federation Ertra ms EtioPia …, (Federation of Eritrea with Ethiopia), pages, and the third one, Ertra kab Federation nab gobeTan Sewran, (Eritrea: from Federation to Annexation