Eritrean Festival Bologna 1991 | Elsa Kidane | ጉጅለ ባህሊ ናጽነት ህግሓኤ | ኤልሳ ኪዳነ #ElsaKidane #EritreanFestivalBologna
Bologna Eritrean Festival' (1981-1991) was an important event that people still strongly recall up to now. First of all, people remember how it was an economic asset for the liberation movement that was sponsored by the diaspora in this and many other ways. Second, the Eritrean Festival in Bologna was the place for political debate where to find new strategies to build consent. The Bologna Festival was run to provide the European exiles' support to the Eritrean Peoples Liberation Front (EPLF) development. It was such a formative collective experience that people often refer to it to exemplify what their migration experience was about and how fundamental it was for the Eritrean community in Italy and the diasporic networks. People recall how Eritrean people arrived in Bologna to attend the Festival from other parts of Italy, from European countries but also from other continents. So the Bologna Festival became a symbol of people's participation in the struggle to become an independent state, ኤልሳ ኪዳነ.