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Martha Kuwee Kumsa Quotes

Ethiopia

Martha Kuwee Kumsa is a siinqee feminist and professor at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada, specialising in Oromo culture and cultural and immigrant identity. She is of Oromo origin and was detained without charges and tortured from 1980 to 1989, following the Ethiopian Red Terror, for her journalistic activities promoting Oromo women's rights.

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When you hear your name, you have to jump and run. If it’s death, you run to death. And if it’s release, it’s freedom you are running to.”

It’s amazing how the brain works and the body responds

The future seemed vibrant. It was the best time of our lives

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Martha Kuwee Kumsa (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.