ADDIS ABABA – Preparations to conduct a tour called ‘Voyage to Eritrea in searching of Fiyameta’ are in good progress, Ethiopian Writers Association announced.
The tour that is going to be held this year would allow writers to visit the places listed in the book Oromay written by Bealu Girma. The plan includes visiting the Peak Point 7 listed in the book, Nakfa and Massawa.
The reflection of the people in the book and the reality on the ground will be witnessed by the authors so that they can examine the book depending on the fact, according to the Association President Abere Adamu . The tour also intended to strengthen the recent rapprochement of the two people who have the same blood and history, he stated.
The association is working with its Eritrean counterpart and individual writers to realize the tour, he noted. “Working with stakeholders, the association is preparing to organize the Nile Basin Countries Writers International Conference in the coming March.
Visiting the GERD is also part of the program.” Such conference would help to strengthen the diplomatic and people to people relations among the countries through future notable essays of the authors who would visit the dam in person,he noted.
As to him, it is also significant to build image as the invited writers are allowed to visit various selected parts of the country. It was learnt that the local tours and the inter border travels of the writers are crucial to improve peoples’ relations promoting critical cultures of the people including traditional democratic power transition and conflict resolution mechanisms. It is also the key to reflect the right image of the country and hastening the cultural integration of the Horn.
The Ethiopian Herald, January 8/2019
BY YOHANES JEMANEH
