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The Oromo In Exile: Creating Knowledge And Promoting Social Justice, Asafa Jalata
The Oromo In Exile: Creating Knowledge And Promoting Social Justice, Asafa Jalata
Asafa Jalata
This paper explains how some Oromos who were forced to leave their country, Oromia, by successive colonial Ethiopian governments and live in exile have been orga- nized in foreign lands to liberate their people and country by supporting the Oromo national movement. By demonstrating how global and regional forces have collaborated in the colonization, continued subjugation and dehumanization of the Oromo people, the paper illustrates how the Oromo people have lost their cultural, political, and social rights that are enshrined in the UN Universal Declaration of human rights and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and how they are still facing …