Bealu girma biography

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Bealu girma biography

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At the end of , Baalu became the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Information, and guest lecturer of creative writing at Addis Ababa University. His last novel Oromay was unprecedented in Ethiopian literature in its boldness, in creating characters similar to the then high-ranking government officials apparent to his readers. In the process, he stumbled across corruption of unforgivable magnitude and started writing the book - Oromay.

It illustrates what was done in the name of "working for the country". The courage he had shown in that novel made him increasingly popular with the general public but also earned him quite a number of powerful adversaries within the regime. Mengistu reportedly asked Baalu how could he write such a book which put "the revolution in danger?

He courageously told Mengistu that he would take responsibility for his work. Yet the book circulated widely underground. Baalu was dismissed from his position in the Ministry of Information for 'betraying the revolution'.