Aida Buzuayehu - International Community School of Addis Ababa

CONCLUSION
In conclusion Desta Hagos and her experiences have influenced many people in
Ethiopia. Her daughter; her greatest inspiration, exemplifies the daughter of a hard
working woman, the first female artist in Ethiopia to have her own gallery, a powerful,
determining and well grounded human being. The Ethiopian revolution had a significant
effect on the works of female artist Desta Hagos, and has influenced her work her life
and her family to a great extent. Fine artist Desta Hagos set up her own destiny with her
stubborn and heavy desire for art. She gained a respectable reputation in Ethiopia as a
strong-willed ‘habesha’. The Derg totally influenced Desta's persona and the way she
thinks as a human being. Throughout her adolescent years she was a social vibrant
young woman, with an incessant passion for life itself. The Derg, the climax of her story
changed everything around her, and today Desta is a woman that was affected by the
revolution with a powerful story to tell. She is a strong woman, had it not been for her
fearless behavior and the belief she had in herself, she wouldn’t be where she is today.
Henceforth The Derg affected women artists greatly in the sense that it caused women
to second-guess their potential, qualifications, capabilities and opportunities as females
in an oppressive regime.
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