Eritrea – We Followed Footprints That Faded into Dust

Eritrea – We Followed Footprints That Faded into Dust

To me, the liberation of Eritrea was meant to constitute the final stanza of a long, sorrow-stitched epic – an ending shaped by sacrifices carried across generations, by a resilience seemingly inscribed into the landscape itself, and by a belief in freedom that persisted despite repeated attempts to extinguish it. I imagined independence as the first breath after prolonged submersion; the moment when a people long pressed to the earth might fina…