The evening was the launching of Dr. Gaim’s amazing book at Birkbeck University of London on May 15, 2008. The title of the book is, 

“Critical Reflection on the Eritrean War of Independence: Social Capital, Associational life, Religion, Ethnicity and sowing seeds of dictatorship”

Seyoum Tsehaye was born in Tukul in 1952 from his father Tsehaye Woldemariam and his mother Roma Solomon. His father was the owner of Bar Da’Osta at Campobollo in Asmara.

After he completed high school in Asmara, Seyoum went to Addis Ababa and continued his studies at Alliance Francaise.  Due to the political turmoil there in the 70s, he returned back to Asmara and worked as a French teacher at Asmara University for just one year. He found it difficult to live and work in Asmara because, besides the fact that he had some of his brothers in the “field” (the armed struggle for independence), he was clandestinely involved with the Eritrean Peoples’ Liberation Front (EPLF). In the end, he chose to join the front in 1977. Including those who followed him soon thereafter, he was the eighth brother to join the front.