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Title: | The Role of Asmara Students in the Eritrean Nationalist Movement: 1958-1968 |
Author: | Wolde-Yesus Ammar |
Year: | 1997 |
Periodical: | Eritrean Studies Review (ISSN 1086-9174) |
Volume: | 2 |
Issue: | 1 |
Period: | Spring |
Pages: | 59-84 |
Language: | English |
Notes: | biblio. refs. |
Geographic terms: | Eritrea Northeast Africa |
Subjects: | nationalism rebellions student movements History and Exploration Education and Oral Traditions politics national liberation movements social history Political development Tagadlo harnat 'Értra Asmara (Eritrea) |
Abstract: | With this article, the author intends to initiate a debate on the role of Asmara students in rousing nationalist sentiments in the period spanning the years 1958-1968. He reviews the influence of the general political environment on the students' actions, presents an outline of their major activities in the 1960s, and summarizes the significance of those early student activities in the growth of nationalist awareness, in particular among the population of the Eritrean highlands. He finds that the semi-organized activities of Asmara students played a more effective role in widening the Eritrean nationalist movement than many of the efforts made by the Eritrean Liberation Movement (ELM) and the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF) in the same period, because Asmara and its environs constituted the centre of gravity of the sociopolitical structure of Eritrea. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |