Arsii Oromo Political and Military Resistance Against the Shoan Colonial Conquest (1881-86)
Abbas Haji

This particular study is dedicated to the resistance of the Arsi Oromo against Shoan colonialism in the 1880s. This war of conquest and the local Arsi resistance were of vital historical importance for the following reasons. First, it represented one of the most bitter anti-colonial struggles in the Horn of Africa. The long years it took and the human and material losses it provoked largely exceeded that of Adwa which was fought between Ethiopia and Italy.

It even led to atrocities and mutilations which none of the contemporary European colonial powers practiced in the Horn of Africa. Second, from Oromo historical point of view, the massive mobilization and fierce resistance clearly indicate higher organizational and military capacities of the traditional Oromo society under its socio-political system, namely the Gadaa. Third, the failure of Menelik’s force to defeat the Arsi for more than five years reinforces the thesis that without the collusion of the Shoan and Italian colonial policies and without the encouragement or understanding of other colonial powers, Menelik would not have won the war nor would he have been in a position to dominate the south in general and the Oromo, in particular. PART I  PART II

Horn of Africa History, Colonial Plans, and the Outrageous Forger Mammo Muchie
Septmber 19 2007 American Chronicle
In an earlier article – refutation of Mammo Muchie’s report on the Horn of Africa Conference, we unveiled the historical falsifications and the political – ideological bias entrenched in his text’s introduction and first part. The article under the title ‘The Horn of Africa Conference Clique, and their Dark Plans for Egypt, Sudan, 'Ethiopia', and Somalia’ consisted in the first of a series, and can be found here.

In the present article, we will reveal Mammo Muchie’s incredibly outrageous forgeries of the Horn of Africa History, on which the Horn of Africa Conference organizers, and the dark groups hidden behind them, intend to set their monstrous geopolitical projects for a Unified Cemetery of African Peoples from Egypt’s southern border down to the Kenyan coast; this colonial project antedates Napoleon’s arrival in Egypt and provides for a Coptic Republic of Ethiopia – being intertwined with inscrutable search fro the Ark of Covenant. READ MORE

Sociology of Oromo Literature and Asafa Dibaba
June 06 2007 Buzz.com

Belonging to a young generation of Oromo philologists and sociologists, Mr. Asafa Dibaba honours his nation by opening new horizons in the Sociology of Literature with focus on Oromo Literature. With more than 15 years of combined research and teaching experience, with 4 books and a pleiad of articles and other contributions, with a vast onsite philological and sociological documentation, Mr. Asafa Dibaba, 40, would honour any American or European university, if invited to lecture, as he actually does his workplace where he is one of the most admired scholars.

Mr. Dibaba’s groundbreaking M.A. thesis entitled "Towards a political sociology of Oromo Literature: Jaarsoo Waaqoo’s Poetry" consists in a critical approach and first attempt to study Oromo Literature through a sociological perspective. Key points of the study include genre theories, generic transformations, issues of nationalism, social and development issues, and resource-based conflicts.

Born at Gombo, Jarso District, Wallaga, to a farming Oromo family, Mr. Asafa Dibaba gave last February a most fascinating online interview that I strongly recommend to anyone wishing to get in-depth and genuine understanding of some of Africa’s thorniest issues; in the ensuing conversation moral values are revealed in a way that testifies to African integrity, originality and virtuosity (http://arefe.wordpress.com/2006/11/12/interview-with-poet-asafa-tefera-dibaba/). I will quote here a revelatory aphorism expressed by Mr. Dibaba during that conversation. READ MORE

The Meroitic Ethiopian Origins of the Modern Oromo Nation
March 7 2007 Dr.  Megalommatis

Considerable advances had been made in academic research and knowledge as the result of the exploratory trips of the Prussian pioneering Egyptologist Richard Lepsius2 (1842 – 1844) that bestowed upon modern scholarship the voluminous 'Denkmäler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien' (Monuments from Egypt and Ethiopia), and the series of excavations by E. A. Wallis Budge3 and John Garstang4 at Meroe (modern Bagrawiyah) in the first years of the twentieth century, Francis Llewellyn Griffith5 at Kawa (ancient Gematon, near modern Dongola, 1929 – 1931), Fritz Hintze6 at Musawwarat es Sufra, Jean Leclant7 at Sulb (Soleb), Sadinga (Sedeinga), and Djebel Barkal (ancient Napata, modern Karima) in the 1950s and the 1960s, D. Wildung8 at Naqah, and Charles Bonnet at Kerma. . The pertinent explorations and contributions of scholars like A. J. Arkell9, P. L. Shinnie10 and Laszlo Torok11 that cover a span of 80 years reconstituted a large part of the greatness and splendor of this four-millennia long African civilization. READ MORE

The Indigenous People of Oromo History
oromosociety@yahoo.ca

During his prolonged residences abroad he acquired a thorough knowledge of the Arabic, Turkish and Persian languages and literatures, which, on his final return to France, enabled him to render valuable assistance to Thevenot, the keeper of the royal library, and to Barthélemy Herbelot. After their deaths he lived for some time at Caen under the roof of Nicolas Foucault (1643-1721), the intendant of Caen, himself no mean archaeologist; and there he began the publication (12 vols., 1704-1717) of Les mule et une units, which excited immense interest during the time of its appearance, and is still the standard French translation. It had no pretensions to verbal accuracy, and the coarseness of the language was modified to suit European taste, but the narrative was adequately rendered. In 1701 Galland had been admitted into the Academy of Inscriptions, and in 1709 he was appointed to the chair of Arabic in the College de France. He continued to discharge the duties of this post until his death, which took place on the 17th of February 1715.

Hardly anything is definitely known as to the origin and early home of the race, but it appears to have occupied the southern part of its present territory since the 16th century. READ MORE