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From Prof. Kay Kaufman Shelemay (2022), Sing and Sing On, p. 105-06:
“An overland march to Kenya was the route taken by an Oromo gospel singer and composer Elizabeth Namarra, who grew up in an evangelical Christian hom in the Boji area of Wollega in western Ethiopia. Elizabeth’s father, an Orthodox Christian who joined an evangelical church as a teenager, often traveled around Oromia seeking converts, taking Elizabeth with him.
Because of her activity as a Sunday school teacher and choir leader for the indigenous Pentecostal Church Mulu Wongel (Full Gospel Believers’ Church), which had been deemed illegal by the Ethiopian government in 1967, Elizabeth was targeted by the Ethiopian government during the revolution. She was arrested several times while at church and imprisoned. In late 1983, Elizabeth escaped and fled to Kenya, [p. 106] where she joined her sister Martha, who had preceded her; after nearly two and a half years in Nairobi, she again joined her sister, this time in Minneapolis in 1986. (See plate 5.2)”
According to her Facebook page, Elizabeth Namarra
- Studied at Augsburg College/ Univ. of MN and lives in Minneapolis, MN
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Shelemay, Kay Kaufman. Sing and Sing On: Sentinel Musicians and the Making of the Ethiopian American Diaspora. Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press, 2022. [esp. p. 105-06; Google Books; Storymap]