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Life and ministry
Maarqoos Tasamma [ማርቆስ ተሰማ; alias Maarqoos Abba Worqo’o] was born in _ _ _
He is a relative [nephew?] of the late KHC leader Abba Gole Nunamo.
Abba Gole was the brother-in-law of Shigute.
- According to Duff (Cords of Love, p. 367), Shigute’s wife, Bashuto, was one of the two persons leading in responsorial singing in Dubancho.
Maarqoos claims to be the first soloist who sang Hadiyyisa gospel songs. His oldest song in the hymnal Waa’i galaxxamona is
- no. 589 “Moollanna, i heechcha kiina uwwaammo” (1969 A.M. = 1976/77 A.D.)
Maarqoos moved to Jimma and joined a Pentecostal church [Jimma Hiwot Berhan Church with its influential gospel choir?]
Duff, Cords of Love, p. 380 reads:
“Abba Goli, who was converted after all the missionaries had left, became a strong leader. As a medium of the evil spirit Jara he was one of the most determined opponents of the gospel, but when the Holy Spirit conquered him, then […] he became a mighty instrument in God’s hand for the spread of the truth in his home village and very widely throughout the whole area.”
Songs in hymn book
Waa’i galaxxamona (2013)
No. 576, 589, 590 (taken from Galaxxi mazmulluuwwa, 1987)
Manuscript
Maarqoos Tasamma had an exercise book with his hand-written songs. Somebody borrowed the exercise book after a conference in Bonochora (?) and never returned it.
Connect
[Didn’t find yet Maarqoos Tasamma on Facebook]
Picture of his father (?)
at his Dubancho home in late 1949 (adapted from
Duff, Cords of Love, p. 386)
Further reading
Duff, Clarence W. Cords of Love: A Testimony to God’s Grace in Pre-Italian Ethiopia – As recorded in memorabilia of one of the Sudan Interior Mission’s “C.O.D. Boys”. Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1980.