Culture

"Abbaa Malkaa," made history as the first Afaan Oromoo film to premiere at the Ethiopian National Theatre on Feb. 23, 2025, since its opening in 1955.

In the Oromo tradition one will have to look for three things in their future partner to know whether they are traditionally suitable for each other.

It examines the history and politicization of Afaan Oromoo and its alphabet 'Qubee' in Ethiopia.  

Kenyan Oromos, who include the Borana, Gabra, Orma, and MunyoYaya, number close to a million.

When he was 14 years old, Gutu moved to Norway where his parents lived as refugees.

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.

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.

Lutherans taught us what it means to be an evangelical.

The two revolutionary musical artists on which my discussion will focus on were born in opposite regions of Oromia. One was born in eastern Oromia, the other in the west.