-v (cid:149) r 7HEGIWNUBRARY. ' AT TUFTS UNIVERSfTY > T o w er in t he S ky 1 /1 T HE F L E T C H ER S C H O OL TS FUTTY ISREVINU Edwin Ginn Library Cabot Book Fund In Memory of JohnM. Cabot X v SOME AAUP BOOKS CURRENTLY IN PRINT Alemayehu Geda.2011 Readings on • Andrew J. Carlson and Dennis G. Economy Ethiopian the gftug 1.9°.>'- Wisf- hltifa*Am- Carlson. 2008. Health, Wealth, Br. 160.00 HC 80.00 and Family in Rural Ethiopia. ?&fr ©A£ T^CtA- £?LU£ Br. 15.00 fifiî £C?:: f7tu£ (cid:176)>.r:’ f^to*to?(D"’- g fi.0 <*.7°:: T o w er in t he S ky A? $ a*2 snj&*! fthv -f-at-i* •nc 85.oo f y/i O A -nc 15.00 rX?£ 7*fc? *»JW W*lP /»i AM? toW • ^.9(cid:176):’. 7"yj&aha*’ rayjRai,a>’ -fkla)AS; fc-moc*:: ITtU HC 83.00 (cid:149)TIC 65.00 n<7D?<; rwaj- fth Ian Campbell. 2001. The Plot to Kill Daniel Kitaw. 2009. 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Ydlibi Br. 70.00 40.00 Br. Forthcoming NB: All prices are at local wholesale rate. :v Acknowledgements Addis Ababa University Press P.O. Box 1176 First and foremost glory be to the Almighty for givin*gfirie*a s'ecofid Addis Ababa, Ethiopia chance at life. I'm also forever indebted to my"family'for*beingthdreifor me Tel.+ 251-011-123 97 46 Fax.+ 251-011.-124 32 91 in those trying times. A boundless.,gratitude, is duetto my- late>aunt;Mamite E-mail: aau.press@ethionet.et Minda and to my sister Almaz for rjlaying a crucial role in savjpg mv, life.- My sincerest thank you goes to so many of my friends for. their i '.'• * i ’ encouragement, support and inspiration while writing this book. Addis Ababa University Press, 2012 Samuel Kiros, Woldeloul Kassa, Girma Getahun, Abdisa Ayana, Fitsum Alemayehu, Birku Menkir, Alula Yimam, AsteV Fisseha; "Bahru ISBN 978-99944-52-48-4 Zewde and Asfaw Seife, please accept my* sincere appreciation for reading the manuscript and for your vduable'arid critical remarks*.- *" - f 3 Meron Alemayehu, Yeweyneshetûraphel,- SeifU Yirga, Yemesrach Fantaw, Engudai Bekele and Wongelawit Tefera, I*am most sincerely,grateful Printed in Ethiopia to you for your support. Ambaye Kidane^ thank you so much for always believing in me and for the encouragement you have given me to try my hand at writing. I hope I haven't failed you. Tadelech Haileihicha'el, the idea'of writing this book was conceived with you at the Emechat Bet over thirty years ago. As the saying in the Ecclesiastes goes - There is a fotaunt;Mamite E-mail: aau.press@ethionet.et Minda and to my sister Almaz for rjlaying a crucial role in savjpg mv, life.- My sincerest thank you goes to so many of my friends for. their i '.'• * i ’ encouragement, support and inspiration while writing this book. Addis Ababa University Press, 2012 Samuel Kiros, Woldeloul Kassa, Girma Getahun, Abdisa Ayana, Fitsum Alemayehu, Birku Menkir, Alula Yimam, AsteV Fisseha; "Bahru ISBN 978-99944-52-48-4 Zewde and Asfaw Seife, please accept my* sincere appreciation for reading the manuscript and for your vduable'arid critical remarks*.- *" - f 3 Meron Alemayehu, Yeweyneshetûraphel,- SeifU Yirga, Yemesrach Fantaw, Engudai Bekele and Wongelawit Tefera, I*am most sincerely,grateful Printed in Ethiopia to you for your support. Ambaye Kidane^ thank you so much for always believing in me and for the encouragement you have given me to try my hand at writing. I hope I haven't failed you. Tadelech Haileihicha'el, the idea'of writing this book was conceived with you at the Emechat Bet over thirty years ago. As the saying in the Ecclesiastes goes - There is a fot - -Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound t % -, 0* . f » ''« t J' £ i l i t To my hero Getachew Mara * i. > Am Farewell to you and thesyoutrf I Have * f spent witji you. <"* -, It was but yesterday we met in a dream. You'have sung to trie' in my aloneness,' and Ibf your'longings'have built a tower in ttie sky. But now our sleep has fled and our dream is over, and it is no longer.dawn. The noontide is upon us, and our half - t waking has turned to-'fuller day; and we must part If ifl the twilight :of memory We should For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world-and forfeits his meef onc'e more, we-shall speak again soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? together arid you shall sing td'me a deeper feeing?' -Mathew 16:26, New American Standard’Bible And if our hands should meet in another, , dream we shall build another fower in the sky. To speak of this painful is for me: to keep silence Is no less pain. On every side is suffering. -KahlilGibran^^Tyfefrop^ - (cid:149)> - -Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound t % -, 0* . f » ''« t J' £ i l i t To my hero Getachew Mara * i. > Am Mystery and innocence are akin. no’t (cid:149) -Hosea Ballo I was afflicted with an illness'when I was in high.school. I didn't know the-word1 affliction .then. But I knew how it felt. It left me with a physical and psychological scar. I was broken and: despaired of ever filling the fissure.. J* ' v I grew up and went to school in1 Harar (a town in eastern Ethiopia) and-to, say that my last year.of higbschooLwas disastrous would-be an understatement. ' / * * •< »' ~ ' 'In the middle, of fthe" school'-year, I started getting* severe headache's and'Tsxcruciating pain in* the right side, of my back, my neck and my shbulder. J'would'go to schools and. find it difficult-to stay filljhe end of.classes1. Lwas either depressed and kept to myself or put up a:frght -with, everyone at home. 1 behaved- erratically with my friends,: Nobody knew what was wrong with_ me, not even^he doctors*. * Finally, lumps-.as big as puffballs sproutecbon the right side of my neck, on jny right' elbow and on my leg just below my right knee. I had had a*bicy6le'accident the-previous, yqar and had hurt my rrghrelbbw and thoughtthatjwas'-thexause of the swelling there: As for the one on my neck, I believed it was just an angry gland. I dicing even bother'to learn what had caused the lump on my leg. To me, if wasmore.a matter of how* I looked than anything else*, .and'I just made sure no one noticed the lumps I was'carrying around. * My friend Martha Legesse-noticed1 the swelling on my neck one' day and urged me to-tell my' mother I stop!>My.only the least. I felt as if a red-hot iro'fi rod was driven- into 'iriy bones brother died a week after at the hospital. A boy of rare intelligence when*ari old1 man inserted twice a^cr'ystal-like substance iyesemdi was my little'brother Minasse: r y " j « sibari) iritb(the shiall'cavity'bn hiy elbow.-1 cried until I could cry . He broke'ourêartsiwith his premature-death. no more. I often -feared 'that I would losemy-signt/for crying but of (cid:149) ..After my brother, djedy Ixame back tojAddis' and had an course! didn't know this could happen just from crying hard. •e operation.on'myfneck. Tfae^tests-showed that Iliad tuberculosis^! I would go thrbugbthat ordeal'in tde morning ario! gb out on was shaken, to my core. I had always, been, the fountain of health, a date In -the afterhbbh with *fed swollen eyes. -Come Monday and jail of a. sudden; there I was hit by an illness,d felt I had morning or. Sunday evening, I returned to campus, elbow bandaged contracted 'the most shameful ^disease imaginablerrl kept .my but looking cheerful. Every 'day, I 'sneaked but of Sidist Kilo sickness!a secret; as if itwas.tabob.. „ t * •- - „"., JI>. a . campus to Afat Kite (which is aboilt -two kilometers away from Itwas.tuberculosisihat.Thad. » .. •» 1 '/ Sidist Kilb campus) to get my daily Str£ptdmyc'in Shot. The. emotional pain was so unbearable^ my sole deliverance None of my friends knew I did that. "' was fo hide" it deep in my psyche'where.even I could not*reach, But My elbow resisted any types of treatment. Pills, shots, x- irtook a load off my'mind-ta-learn'that.my TB(was outside.-my rays, incisions, biopsies, alcohol, gauze, hydrogen, peroxide, special l.ungs. Tt would have been even more devastating *to * me.- had it diet, sour leaves, and bitter roots became, my lot. But school was a invadedmy lungs, r ' i K~th i ' ' v sanctuary for'me. ftmade me forget the smelly roots, sour drinks,

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