Culture

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.

In Oromo culture, names are the bearers of one's identity, says Obbo Liban. As such, when a child is born, it will take two to three years before they are named in a collective ceremony.

The Oromos of Tana River County descended from a Borana sub-clan known as Warra Dayyu or Warda.

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.

"Art to me is a medium through which I express my ideas."

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.

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.

Qeerroo use qubee to communicate with one another.

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.