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From
the Back Cover --
Ayalew Yimam has authored a very
original and exciting book.Yankee Go Home is a book with a sharp point
of view that embodies the Ethiopian experience after the outburst of the
1974 revolution with focus on the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Party
(EPRP). The author reminisce the Ethiopian political landscape in a
series of snapshots and then thematically highlights the myriad
memories, stage by stage, frame by frame, in all the chapters. He
provides a useful, comprehensive, and compelling explanation of his
childhood, the Ethiopian Student Movement, the EPRP, and other political
organizations like the Tigray peoples Liberation Front (TPLF), the
Ethiopian Peoples Democratic Movement (EPDM), the Eritrean Liberation
Front (ELF), and the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF). In
effect, the author reconstructs the past, not by rendering allusions but
by furnishing hard facts that altogether compels the reader to visit
(and for some to revisit) the gruesome and horrifying experience that he
encountered in a hostile environment camouflaged by camaraderie façade.
Yankee Go Home is not only a moving and exhilarating book, but it is
also unique in its vivid regeneration of the escalating political
warfare among major political actors in a seamless flow through the
chapters. The book is a rare treasure and a must read!
Dr. Ghelawdewos Araia
About the Author --
Ayalew Yimam, alias Mukhtar is a resident of Takoma
Park, Maryland, originally resettled at Marietta, Georgia. He has been a
political activist both at Atlanta; where he contributed towards the
democratic struggle in one of the earliest Peace and Democracy forums,
organized and participated in many demonstrations, and with others published Ethiopia Perspective. Here in Washington Metropolitan area, he
partook in the Ethiopians for Peace, Democracy and Development in North
America (EPDDNA) and with many, he published Ethio-Focus. For few years,
he has served his country as a diplomat here in Washington, DC. He is a
family man with three children.
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