These are the words of Mama
Zeineb, national poet of Eritrea:

“I do not have much education. I was not taught by my father. I can only write my name and my father's name. I started my poetry in 1978 after the strategic withdrawal. I was in the town and when the Dergue came I had to leave. I left to the mountains. I was crying and crying, things were burning me inside. My poems are about the suffering of the Eritrean people."