Hiwot tefra biography of abraham

Summary

Hiwot Teffera is an Ethiopian Author and a former member of the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Party (EPRP). She is most known for her book ‘Tower in the Sky’ published by Addis Ababa University Press in 2012.

The book is a personal account of her involvement in the student revolution in the late 1960s and early 70s, and her role at the EPRP party.

Hiwot was imprisoned and tortured by the DERG regime for eight years. In her book ‘Tower in the Sky’ she gives a very detail and personal that led for her arrest and torture by the military regime DERG.

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Early life

Hiwot was born and raised in the Eastern part of Ethiopia, in Harar City. After attending her primary and seconder school in Harar, she moved to Addis Ababa to Addis Ababa University.

Career

Hiwot Teffera is an author of two books titled Tower in the Sky and Mine to Win.

Both of them are translated in to Amharic

Her significant work is her first book, Tower in the Sky, which she details her experience as a you