Author(s): Sheiko Nagawo
Format: Paperback
No. of Pages: 36
Publisher: Friesenpress
Language: English
Date Published: 2017-03-14
Dimensions: 216 x 279 x 3mm
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Illustrations: Illustrations, color

"A Loud Whisper" his very first children's picture book is based on a true story of a boy born to a semi-nomadic family of 1950's Ethiopia. The Oromo, a nationality to which the author belongs remains a marginalized majority in Ethiopia. As a protest to occupation and oppression, Oromos of this region refused to be part of Abyssinian learning institution until a villager, a man known to the author's family was arrested after delivering a letter of his own arrest to authorities. The incident awakened his poor sleepy village. They gathered, lamented the arrest of their fellow villager and decided to send their first born sons to school so what happened to Daybaso Gohare is not repeated. He was the first born son and first to go to school from his village of Achaba in Arsi Did'a.