Kenyan Oromos, who include the Borana, Gabra, Orma, and MunyoYaya, number close to a million.
Fano involvement goes beyond the retaking of "lost Amhara lands".
Ethiopia, as a state, propagates pathologies in the same way other colonial states have done.
In Mexican-Ethiopian filmmaker Jessica Beshir’s Faya Dayi, khat is more than an important export product in a capitalist economy; she captures khat’s roles and meanings in everyday Harari life.
This ambiguous state of affairs, in which the Oromo were nominally free, whilst in practise still colonised, was one of the most dangerous and critical of times in their history.
Adwa as an African victory over colonialism is an atrocious distortion.
If Oromo elites do not learn from the tragedy of the association, their fate in the 1990s will not be different from the fate of the leaders of the association in the 1960s.
Racism against non-Amhara Ethiopians and African blacks is its best kept dark secret.
Knowing the centrality of ethnicity to Ethiopian politics, the silence of mainstream women’s rights movements on the topic is loud.
I thought Afaan Oromo would not be able to endure and that Wallo’s fate was looming up for all Oromiyaa. So, though I had no money for the project, I made up my mind to try to save my language from sinking into oblivion by recording at least part of its vocabulary on paper.