A Love Letter to Ethiopia, A Promise of Unity: Emahoy Tsegue Mariam and her “Souvenirs”
By Solyana Bekele Dubbing her the “Mother of Ethiopian Classical Music,”—as grand as that epithet sounds—might still be doing Emahoy Tsegue Mariam Gebru and her haunting, ephemeral, and አስተካዥ compositions a disservice.