The article was written at the behest of the Department of Adult and Media Education, Ministry of Education, Government of Eritrea, to commemorate the celebrations of International Literacy Day on Sept 8, 2004. The article was published in Eritrea Profile - a State run news paper four days before on Sunday. It portrays the struggle of Eritrean leadership since its pre-independence era to the present to combat with the illiteracy problems dogging the Eritrean ethnic groups. READMORE