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By Asennai Musye

Yemane Barya: The Eritrean Griot

5 Comment(s) March 04, 2007 - 5:31am | | Permalink | Print |

How do you write about passion, love, revolution, flawless poignancy, inexhaustible hope and painful yearning for freedom?

How do you capture the heartbeats of millions and channel it through your soul and into the world? How do you become both timeliness and timelessness itself? As for the answers to these questions, I simply don’t know.

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The challenge I faced the moment I began writing this article, however, has more to do with this question: how do you write about the person who captured all of these complex elements during his short stay on this earth?

How do you write about Yemane Barya, the prolific Eritrean griot?

Addressing these questions will only create a series of articles I won’t dare venture into at the moment.

Neither will I navigate this piece to capture all that is Yemane. I will, instead, bow out of the chal