“Although I was born and raised in rural Ethiopia, I was in a situation not so different from you (an urban person). When I joined the revolutionary struggle, I was a student at Addis Ababa University medical school, and had already been to one of the best high schools in the country. On top of that, I had read revolutionary books about Ho-Chi- Minh and Che-Guevara and had unflinching ideological views on life. When we joined the struggle and started living with the peasants, the reality on the ground couldn’t be further removed from what we had read in the books. We had to teach ourselves from scratch and learn from the wisdom of the people we were fighting for. At the time, it was not easy to earn the trust of the people and secure political legitimacy for the struggle.”
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 18:06:15 +0000
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