Amhara Regional State Archives

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Tigrayan Peoples Liberation Front (TPLF) installed a puppet leadership in the newly created Oromia regional state, made of the bilingual descendants of the Amhara nafxanya settlers and their sycophants.

Dargaggoo Indaastirii Muuziqaa Oromoo Guddisuuf Hojjataaru

By Derartu A. Gobena

Gara fuulduratti Vision Entertainment gama filmii Afaan Oromootiin, baandii fi istiidiyoo guddaa sagalee fi suur-sagalee sadarkaasaa eeggate Finfinneetti hundeessuuf karoora akka qabu Birraa Gammadii dubbateera.

Book Review: Gezetena Gezot, the History of the Matcha-Tulama Self-Help Association

By Mohammed Hassen

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.

Politicisation of an Oromo-English Dictionary.

By Dr. Tilahun Gamta

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.

The History and Politics of the Qubee Alphabet

By Guluma Gemeda

Qeerroo use qubee to communicate with one another.

Abitew Kebede, ‘Sirba’ and Ethiopian Evangelicalism

By Naol Befkadu

Lutherans taught us what it means to be an evangelical.

Spoken Word Bigotry: Culture in the Age of ‘Medemer’

By Abreham Gudissa

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 Role of Revolutionary Oromo Artists in Building Oromumma.

By Kulani Jalata

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.

We have been receiving reports from credible sources that the Amhara Militias and special forces have launched an armed attack on civilians in the Amhara…

OLF statement on current terror and havoc caused by the deployment of Amhara Militia to the Oromia Regional State