Woldeab Woldemariam

Woldeab Woldemariam , politician and journalist érythrée N, born with Adi Zarna (province of Seraye) 1908, died in Asmara, 1995.

Woldeab studies with the Swedish mission where it obtains its vat. It founds the first newspaper in Tigrinya: Hanti Ertra in 1947. It Co-founds the first trade union of workers of the African history: The Confederation of the Eritrean workers.

It engages politically with the freedom fighters by uniting the Parti for freedom and progress (PLP), carried out by the Ras Tessema Asborom. It takes part in the foundation of the independence block with the sheik Ibrahim Sultan Ali and Degeat Seid Abdelkader Kebire, leaders of the Moslem Ligue (pro-independence).

Very quickly the leaders of the large Ethiopian neighbor wishing to incorporate the Érythrée in their empire, see of a very evil eye this interreligieuse and practical alliance the policy of the intimidation by assassinating Seid Abdelkader Kebire in 1949. Woldeab is chosen by the the United Nations to translate the Eritrean constitution of the Italian to the English and the Tigrinya. He is elected appointed in 1950, in spite of the fact that English deliberately modified the results in favor of the federationnists.

Because of a wave of repression anti-freedom fighters, Woldeab flees in Egypt where it Co-bottom the Liberation movement of Erythrée (MISS). It then takes part in the foundation of the FLE (Front of release of Érythrée) in 1962.

He lived with the the United States until the independence of the Erythrée in 1991. He dies in 1995 with Asmara.

He is regarded as one of the fathers of Eritrean independence.

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