That shaping of ours, and especially since I might have been the kind of guy we call bold, more advanced, or however you want to put it. […] The idea came to me to establish the Association of Albanian Students in Belgrade.
This wasn’t simply a cultural-literary association. It was, in a legal sense, an organization through which we would then carry out our underground activities. But we needed this legal aspect of the organization as a shield, not the underground one. You might say that I thought it through well. At first, I discussed it with the most loyal and devoted friends. They agreed. They accepted the idea of establishing it. A meeting was held, it was during a literary session. I stood up and presented the concept, the idea, and the proposal to create the association. It was approved by everyone.
To avoid it seeming like we were just a group, we formalized it on paper and had everyone sign their agreement for the establishment of the association. Additionally, Setki Imami was there, an experienced worker in Belgrade. I’m not sure if Anton Çetta was there, I don’t quite remember. Dančetović, who was the head of the department, did not sign it.
Agim Gjakova was born in 1935 in Gjakova. In 1966, he graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology, majoring in English, in Tirana. In 1960, he was extradited to Albania due to his political activity within the association “Përpjekja,” which he himself founded. From 1966 to 1970, he worked as an editor at the Albanian Telegraphic Agency, and from 1988 to 1990, he worked as a screenwriter at the film studio “Shqipëria e Re.” In 1999, he returned to Kosovo, where he began working as a culture editor for the newspaper Bota Sot. He is now retired and lives with his family in Prishtina.