Henok G. Gabisa

The Life, Works, and Witness of Tsehay Tolessa and Gudina Tumsa, the Ethiopian Bonhoeffer

History & Biography

“This couple’s life has inspired people of all identities and religions. For them, Christianity wasn’t only an epistemological source of eternity but also a basis for the civic and sacrosanct duty to oppose the political tyranny of the Derg. This book takes stock of the couple’s lives in brisk and elegant prose to examine their unswerving ideas of liberation theology, social consciousness, and revolutionary experience that they left behind for this generation. Anyone interested in understanding the temporal and spatial interface between the spiritual and secular quests for religious freedom, political justice, and civil liberties in Oromo and beyond must know who Tsehay and Gudina are. This book is a masterfully written account of one of the most important and indomitable power couples who ever lived in Oromo.”