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#Conversation: Dr Baro Keno Dheressa, an Oromo freedom fighter, human rights activist and a medical doctor by profession spoke to Dr Truman, who has been a human rights defender and leader of the Oromo Support Group – Australia (OSG) for more than three decades. They had an instructive and informative talk and in this discussion emphasized the current human rights abuses and the horrific expansion of the genocide against the Oromo nation by the tyrannical regime of #Bilxigina and its subordinates or perhaps the masterminds of all sufferings in the country, the #Amharas armed group called #Fano.
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On my weekly podcast "FUTURE OROMIA" I had an extraordinary conversation with an outstanding young Oromo girl, who lives in the UK.
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“It's all about the way we think and how we do things make things different. So change our mentality and think positively. Don't be afraid to try something for fear of failing before you even try. Instead of listening to the destructive advice of others who have never tried before. When they advise you to stop trying and scare you by telling you that if you try, you will fail. Just ask them if they have tried what you do now and if not then move on in your fight and one day with your goals set you will be the winner. Take the chance and stay on track in the fight for victory ... '' says Kutube, who was not afraid to try everything and won a lot of what she tried.
Her name is Quxube Jacob, She was born in Oromia and raised in Kenya Kakuma refugee camp where she completed primary school and high school.
Upon completion of her high school in 2014, Quxube started teaching in a local primary school and then joined #FilmAidinternational to learn about basic journalism. In 2015, she moved to the UK (settled by the UNHCR). When she settled in the UK, in less than a month, she began a college study where she studied Business Management.
In 2017 she completed college and joined the University of Huddersfield in the same year to pursue a degree in Human Resource Management with Business Management. Whilst at university, she joined different clubs and University societies to gain extra skills and to meet people from different backgrounds.
Quxube also got a job within the university as Student Associate. She said, ''those roles and activities helped me to grow as a person as it boosted my self-confidence and other interpersonal skills.''
During her final year at university, she started her online business (selling mainly Oromo items) and it is around this time that she also started a Youtube channel.
Quxube says, '' I started the channel to empower youths in my community however, it didn’t attract a lot of people and decided to move on to something else but in the future, I am looking for ways to empower youths. ''
Quxube graduated from university in 2020 with first-class honours in HR and Business management and now she is currently working full time for Kirklees Council as Business Support Officer.
She goes on and tells me that, '' As for my future goals: I want to go back to university to pursue a career in international relations at Lancaster University and to work for UNHCR. I also want to create a platform where I can empower youths in our community.''
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Prof. Asafa Jalata Department of Sociology, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA.
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Abstract
In his book, Brian J. Yates (2020) overgeneralizes the experiences
of a few Oromo collaborator individuals from the Tulama and
Wallo Oromo to the affairs of these Oromo groups. It claims that
the Tulama and Wallo Oromo participated in the construction of
the modern Ethiopian state between 1855 and 1913 and, in the
process, became Habasha by abandoning their Oromo culture and
identity. If the colonization of peoples would transform the
cultures and uniqueness of the conquered peoples, today, the
entire world population would have become the English and the
French by rejecting their respective cultures and identities. But
colonialism only creates collaborative classes from the dominated
population groups to use them as intermediaries to facilitate the
exploitation and oppression of the subaltern groups. The Tulama
and Wallo Oromo case is not different. The Oromo intermediaries
from these Oromo groups were assimilated to the
Amhara/Habasha culture and state to promote their interests and
the interest of their colonial masters at the cost of the Oromo
masses. By using the critical and political economy analytical
approaches, this review essay debunks the claims that the author
of the book makes by ignoring the history, culture, and identity of
the Oromo people, which have been suffering
under Habasha colonialism in general, and Amhara colonialism in
particular, for more than a century.
Keywords
Tulama and Wallo Oromo, Oromia, Gobana and Menelik, Habasha, Competing
Nationalisms, Oromo, Amhara-Tigray, The Manz/Shawa Kingdom, The Ethiopian
Colonial State
Share and Cite:
Jalata, A. (2021) Review Essay: Are the Tulama and Wallo
Oromo Habasha?. Sociology Mind, 11, 125-146. doi: 10.4236/sm.2021.114010.
1. Introduction
The author alleges that the Northern Oromo, namely the Tulama and Wallo
Oromo, became Habasha through cultural and political interactions with the
Amhara kingdom of Manz, northern Shawa, by abandoning their cultural norms
and Oromo identity and formed the modern Ethiopian state between 1855 and
1913. His specific objective is to liberate the Tulama and Wallo Oromo history
from Oromo nationalism, which mobilizes the larger Oromo society. By including
them in the Habasha peoplehood or community, Yates claims to reject ethno-racial
categories that essentialize Oromo and Amhara histories and undermine the reality
of “the multiethnic Habasha cultural community in creating modern Ethiopia.”
The author criticizes Ethiopian studies for using ethno-racial categories and Oromo
studies to silence “the Northern Oromo groups who played a role in creating
modern Ethiopia.” By rejecting the concept of ethnonational or ethnic categories
such as Oromo, Amhara, and Tigrayan, Yates defines the Habasha as a cultural
community. However, Yates does not explain how the relationship between the
indigenous Oromo and the expanding Amhara gradually emerged and evolved into
conflict, series of wars, colonization, and contradictions. He considers the Tulama
and Wallo Oromo as raw material from which the Habasha constructed their
peoplehood, nation, and state. If, as he claims, both the Northern Oromo and the
Amhara and Tigray ethnonational groups, which he calls the Habasha, jointly
constructed the Ethiopian state, why has this state continued to entirely reflect the
Amhara culture, identity, language, and religion? Or did the Oromo culture,
identity, religion, and language lack the substance needed to construct a state?
Yates focuses on the biographical narratives of Oromo collaborators such as
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Leta, a young Oromo poet, wrote a wonderful poem in memory of our best singer and human rights activist Hacaaluu Hundessaa on the day of his first year murder. Hacaaluu was murdered by Abiy Ahmed's security forces on June 29, 2020 in the capital of Oromia / Ethiopia, Finfinnee.
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Narobika had a wonderful conversation with the leaders and members of the UK Oromo community and the Oromo intellectuals about the ongoing cultural and direct acts of violence in Oromia against the Oromo nation by the successive regimes of the Ethiopian Empire.
Oromos has long been a resistance to the oppressive and colonial regime imposed on them from the late 19th century to the present day. Some people are confused, including the Oromos, as Abiy Ahmed was born to the Oromo family, and he may represent the Oromos. The established truth is that Abiy does not relate to the Oromo on blood or by any ideology with the Oromo nation; instead, he positioned himself as anti-Oromo and Oromuma. For this reason, six months later, he declared an illegal command post in various Oromia zones in the region after grasping power.
Narobika's guests were engineer Negassa Sori Gerba, Aaddee Addisalem Dheressaa, a social worker and PhD student in economics, Edao Kallo. They shed light on the characters of the current political crises and ethnic polarisation in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. They discussed the crime committed by Abiy Ahmed's security forces, particularly in Oromia, and the political situation in the very fragile state of the Ethiopian Empire. They also discussed the influences of the diplomatic and Oromos movements in the diaspora. They explained the pressure Oromos and human rights activists worldwide could put on Abiy's regime through rallies.
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The detailed and lengthy conversation I had with three human rights defenders and freedom fighters from Oromo about the current problems of the massacre of the Wallo Oromo by Abiy Ahmed security forces and Amahara special forces.
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Our topic was, The Ethiopian empire that declares war on the Oromo nation and how to be the voices of our oppressed nation suffering at this critical time.
The war is not limited to just Wallo, but it spreads very quickly across the entire border of the adjacent Oromia and Amhara border.
My guests were Dr Baro Dheressa, Dr Zewdu Lachisa and Dr Warqinaa Torban, who are on the front lines against the injustice and oppression of our people.
We have touched on so many topics: elections and the feature of
true democracy, culture, society, freedom, justice, demand and inflation in Ethiopia, the work of advocacy and diplomacy, drought and poverty, and the border conflict between Sudan and Ethiopia and the very active war in Oromia between OLA and Abiy and the War in Tigray, law and order, We have also discussed in detail the identity war that has been deeply rooted in Ethiopia since its inception.
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I talked to one of the Borena's residents regarding the current situation in Borena, Oromia regional state
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I have collected the stories that need to be told that recently happened in western Oromia. I was joined by Kamal Qalbeessa, the former leader of the OLA's commander regiments, who closely follows the situation in western Oromia.
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Irreecha (also called Irreessa or Dhibaayyuu), is thanksgiving holiday of the Oromo people in Ethiopia.The Oromo people celebrate Irreecha to thank Waaqa (God) for the blessings and mercies they have received throughout the previous year. The Irreecha festival is celebrated every year at the beginning of Birraa (Spring), new season after the dark and rainy winter season. It is attended by millions of people.
The thanksgiving is celebrated at sacred lakes across Oromia and Hora Harsadi, Bishoftu, Oromia as a whole. Once at the lake, festival-goers immerse the green grass and the flowers they are carrying and sprinkle themselves.
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