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.
Curate Oromia
Qeerroo use qubee to communicate with one another.
Lutherans taught us what it means to be an evangelical.
Have the Oromo been an internalized colony of the Amhara? Yes, but there are degrees of colonial status.
The fundamental paradox of Adwa is this: the very Ethiopia that inscribed with anti-colonial meanings after its victory over European colonialism was a colonizing state itself.
A popular Ethiopian nursery rhyme goes አበበ በሶ በላ። Abebe, the most common name for boys in Amharic, eats beso, a traditional breakfast meal made out of barley. In the second line, Caala, equally common a name for boys in Afaan Oromo, grabs …a dagger!
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.
The Ethiopainist camp leaves nothing untouched in their attack of especially the Oromo whom they see as a major stumbling block.