History is replete with the names of singers whose songs were fresher than the tune of Nai Ra`, but it was stronger than all the bullets of the tyrants, and it was burning the revolutionaries and filling their throats with a shout as if it was a roar of thunder.

Who did not hear Sheikh Imam Issa? That blind person who saw in his tunes lamps guiding them to the paths of freedom. After the June 1967 defeat, the poet Imam and the poet Ahmad Fouad Najm formed a striking duo - in the language of football commentators - and presented songs of a political nature that were critical and inciting to the revolution, throughout the reigns of Presidents Gamal Abdel Nasser and Anwar Sadat. Because of these songs, "Shydek",

Build your palaces on farms from our hard work and work edina

The mufflers along the factories and the prison Muttrah Al-Genaina

Put your dogs on the streets and lock your cells on us

We knew who caused our wounds, we knew our soul and we met

Workers, peasants and students, our hour came and we began,

We follow a path that is not fragile, and victory is near us.

In Sudan, it is possible to refer to the phenomenon of Mustafa Sayed Ahmed, whose songs dominated the emergence of the rescue regime, which chased him until his death in exile in 1996.

The youth of the December 2019 revolution had conjured up Mustafa’s songs in their movement that led to the overthrow of the regime of President Omar al-Bashir, such as that of the legislator of the dream of the broad:

Oh the vast dream project

Our looting day stole our fear

We have increased your destiny twice

As long as your shoulder ... our shoulder

Oh, the anger of the thundering, the thunderous .. in our gnawa and letters

Spoon the banks and the banks

Play throats chanting

Cover the pores of the nosebleeds

Enlighten our caves and caves.

Rafika, bury me in the mountains

In Italy and elsewhere, people knew the famous song "Bella Chao", which was chanted by the anti-Mussolini regime, meaning "My goodbye," which is a song of Italian folklore, and it was composed by poor peasants working in the rice fields as an expression of their rebellion over long working hours and low wages:

Rafika, bury me in the mountains

Under the shade of a beautiful flower

And if people pass by, they will say what a beautiful flower

Rose Resistor, who was martyred free.

One cannot forget the song "Cuba's Lamentation of Commander Che Guevara" composed by Cuban composer Carlos Puebla in the aftermath of the assassination of Guevara in 1965.

We learned that your desire, from the heights of history,

Where the sun brave you, put you on the brink of death,

Here is still clear, the intimate transparency, of your dear being,

Commander Che Guevara.

Hashalu Hundisa

All of the above we remembered on the occasion of the killing of the most famous Ethiopian singer Hashalu Hundisa, the icon of the Oromo ethnic revolution that has a population of about 40 million of Ethiopia's 103 million people.

A few bullets were sufficient to eliminate the voice of the Oromo Revolution, whose melodies were stirred by the rebels of that region, who complain of bitterness of marginalization, and the injustice of those sitting on government chairs in Addis Ababa.

Hundisa was killed a few days ago in a suburb of the capital, and while the dimensions of his murder had not yet been revealed, Prime Minister Abi Ahmed accused those whom he called of invisible hands of being behind the crime.

Hondisa, a 17-year-old politician who tasted the bitterness of the political prison, emerged during protests that erupted over previous years against the Ethiopian government, which caught fire in the heart of Oromia. His songs were inspiring for the movement that pushed Abi Ahmed, the son of Oromo, to power, for the first time in the history of this ethnicity that lives in central Ethiopia.

Revolution soundtrack

Hondisa was named the Oromo Voice in their struggle against oppression and oppression, and his songs were considered soundtracks for their protests that culminated in a historic change of rule in Ethiopia that brought Oromo son Abi Ahmed to power in the country, which was monopolized by the Tigray and Amhara minorities.

His songs were at the heart of the wave of street protests in the cities of Oromo County in 2015, which eventually led to the resignation of Prime Minister Haile Mariam Desline, says Dr. Ull Alu, a lecturer at the University of Keele in England who has written extensively on the Hundisa phenomenon.

"His songs express the frustration of the Oromo youth, and their dream of a beautiful homeland, it was not just music, but rather a platform for political agitation that emphasizes Oromo's cultural subjectivity," Awal said in an interview with The New York Times.

And he remembers the first celebration of Oromo singers in the capital Addis Ababa in 2017, and specifically recalls the participation of Hundisa who presented painful and honest songs, such as Maalan Jira, which tells about the status of Oromo, and says Oulu is a calm but powerful expression of Oromo, nor Gro They became the soundtrack accompanying their protests.

Violence of emperors

In his last interview with the widespread Oromo media network last week, Hondesa has clearly criticized the violence and violations committed by the emperors and previous regimes that ruled Ethiopia, but he was not exempt from that current ruling regime led by Abi Ahmed.