About | Curate Oromia

Our mission

As our name indicates, our platform aims to create knowledge and amplify grassroots perspectives. Narratives about Ethiopia often tend to be dominated by discourses that exclude voices from the grassroots, the periphery, and societies whose reality contradicts the kind of identity the Ethiopian state has always tried to construct.

By curating stories and analyses that challenge these monolithic narratives, we expose the gaps in hegemonic and institutionalized discourses that have been allowed to define Oromia and the wider region; e.g., the omissions and distortions that have been passed as history to categorize people. We prioritize lived experiences, oral histories, and critical interrogations of power.

But we would also like to constantly play around with the notion of going beyond: beyond epistemic violence, the trappings of nationalism and binarisms. We publish essays that question singular stories and regurgitated narratives that nationalisms often propagate and the imaginations of futures they inhibit.

Ultimately, our mission is to provide a space where good journalism meets critical analysis, where subaltern voices shape the conversation and Oromia’s stories are told on their own terms, contributing to a dispassionate, nuanced understanding from a grassroots perspective.

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