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Gadaa As The Fountain Of Oromummaa And The Theoretical Base Of Oromo Liberation, Asafa Jalata, Harwood Schaffer
Gadaa As The Fountain Of Oromummaa And The Theoretical Base Of Oromo Liberation, Asafa Jalata, Harwood Schaffer
Asafa Jalata
Every society has its unique central organizing and ruling ideology and theoretical models in a given historical epoch that it uses as its lenses to look at and interpret the world and to survive freely and advance its civilization or ways of life without disruption from within and without. Ideology plays many roles in a society, and its essential function is to define and promote the political, material, and cultural interests pf a group, a nation, a social class, a state, or other entities; it also "offers an explanation and an evaluation of political, economic, and social condition, provides its …
The Oromo, Gadaa/Siqqee Democracy And The Liberation Of Ethiopian Colonial Subjects, Asafa Jalata
The Oromo, Gadaa/Siqqee Democracy And The Liberation Of Ethiopian Colonial Subjects, Asafa Jalata
Asafa Jalata
This paper explores the potential role of the Gadaa/Siqqee system of Oromo democracy in the development of a democratic multinational liberation movement of the colonized nations within the Ethiopian Empire in order to dismantle the Tigrayan-led Ethiopian terrorist government and replace it with a sovereign multinational democratic state in the Horn of Africa based on the principles of indigenous democracy. After a brief introduction, this study describes the presence of a democratic, Siqqee/Gadaa administration among the Oromo in the Horn of Africa in the 16th and 17th centuries and the subsequent changes that made them vulnerable to colonization. It further …