These Portraits of Ethiopian Women Showcase Strength and Bravery
These Portraits of Ethiopian Women Showcase Strength and Bravery
Temsalet: Phenomenal Ethiopian Women, a new book from Tsehai Publishers—is a collection of inspiring stories and beautiful photographic portraits of 64 phenomenal contemporary Ethiopian women who have broken through age-old barriers to advance in their fields. Each woman tells her own story—where she came from, what challenges she faced, what helped her succeed, what inspires her, and what thoughts she has for girls and young women growing up today. They come from a broad array of fields of endeavor and range in age from their 20s to their 90s.
Edited and compiled by Mary-Jane Wagle with photography by Aida Muluneh, Temsalet is a project of the Network of Ethiopian Women’s Associations, working to advance women’s equality and women’s rights in Ethiopia, and is published by Tsehai Publishers and The Marymount Institute Press of Los Angeles, California. In addition to the women’s stories, Temsalet features a foreword by First Lady Roman Tesfaye and an essay on women in Ethiopian history by Rita Pankhurst.
Below, see portraits of eight inspiring women.
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Temsalet: a book celebrating phenomenal Ethiopian women launched
The Network of Ethiopian Women’s Associations (NEWA) launched Temsalet: Phenomenal Ethiopian Women, a book featuring stories and photographs of 64 accomplished Ethiopian women, on the 7th of October 2014. The inauguration of the book was followed by a week-long exhibition “Faces of Temsalet” featuring photographs by award-winning Ethiopian photographer Aïda Muluneh whose portraits of the women accompany each story in the book.
Temsalet is the work of the Network of Ethiopian Women’s Associations (NEWA), an Ethiopian consortium of local Ethiopian societies working to advance women’s rights and status. The book showcases the first-ever collective portrait of 64 accomplished Ethiopian women across a wide range of occupations, from farmer to ambassador, and “is designed to inspire girls and young women to achieve their utmost – and to celebrate Ethiopian women:, according to the organizers.
Roman Tesfaye, the wife of PM Hailemariam Desalegn, has written the foreword for the book which also features an assay on selected women in Ethiopian history and written by Rita Pankhurst.
The project involved the work of many dedicated volunteers over a three and a half year period; the book was edited and compiled by Mary-Jane Waglé, an American volunteer, with the guidance of an all-volunteer advisory board of distinguished women and with the help of twenty young women as interviewers and researchers. The book is published by Tsehai Press, a publishing company based in Los Angeles, California.
NEWA’s partners – Sweden, East Africa Bottling Share Company, UN Women, Civil Society Support Program, GirlHub Ethiopia, European Union, Irish Aid, Ipas Ethiopia, David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Embassy of France in Addis, Embassy of the United States in Addis, FAWE-Ethiopia, and MujujegwaLoka Women’s Development Association – have sponsored the first Amharic edition of the book to be distributed free of charge to organizations working on girls’ empowerment including high schools, libraries, and both governmental and non-governmental groups.
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