Eritrea: ‘Ich Bin,’ I Am – ‘For My Sisters, Brothers, Cousins, and All Eritreans to Read My Book in Our Mother Tongue Has an Incredible Feeling,’ Bisirat

[Shabait] Bisrat Tesfay Negassi is an Eritrean-born fashion designer, author, and cultural curator. Born in Asmara in the early 1970s, she fled with her family to Hamburg, Germany, during her childhood due to the daily atrocities that were committed by Ethiopia's army of occupation in those times. She pursued a career in fashion design, establishing her label, Negassi, in Paris in 2004. Beyond her fashion career, Bisrat is a co-founder and curator of M.Bassy, a cultural space in Hamburg that showcases artists from