THIRTY YEARS OF BLOODY CONFLICT with a powerful enemy never broke the spirit of the Eritrean people.
After winning their freedom from Ethiopia, a young man dreams of starting a new life, building a home, and teaching his children what it means to be the masters of their own fate.
But all-too soon, the fighting resumes.
Rounded up and forced into conscription, subjected to inhumane treatment, made to serve a despotic leader in an army fighting a war nobody wants, he will have to sacrifice much.
Brinestone Press I will not grow downward - memoir of an eritrean refugee: my long and perilous flight from africa's hermit kingdom/yikealo neab
