Being And Becoming Oromo

Author : Paul Trevor William Baxter
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171063793
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being and Becoming Oromo written by Paul Trevor William Baxter and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 1996 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oromo people are one of the most numerous in Africa. Census data are not reliable but there are probably twenty million people whose first language is Oromo and who recognize themselves as Oromo. In the older literature they are often called Galla. Except for a relatively small number of arid land pastoralists who live in Kenya, all homelands lie in Ethiopia, where they probably make up around 40 percent of the total population. Geographically their territories, though they are not always contiguous, extend from the highlands of Ethiopia in the north, to the Ogaden and Somalia in the east, to the Sudan border in the west, and across the Kenyan border to the Tana River in the south.Though different Oromo groups vary considerably in their modes of subsistence and in their local organizations, they share similar cultures and ways of thought.

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Author : Seenaa Godana-Dulla Jimjimo
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781500707415
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The In-between written by Seenaa Godana-Dulla Jimjimo and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The In Between is a story that transcends cultures, borders, nationality, religion and an identities for which one see's themselves rather than the one imposed on them. More importantly it is about African Women who wonder where they fit between conservative African values with double standards for boys and girls and/or fantasy land with feminist ideology and the American democracy. The author uses Winnie Mandela, who gave so much to her people, for the pursuit of justice but seems to end up in a different place than her counterpart, male. It is also about immigrants who are born in one place but raised in a different place with new sets of culture, language and values. Also, while the majority of the book focuses on diverse issues, as stated above I must say this, "I have a soft spot for the forgotten women of Africa, the Oromo women, who often face double bigotry, for being Oromo and for being women". Overall, the book is about the Oromo people and their pursuit for dignity, being and becoming Oromo in the Diaspora, the failure of OLF, bureaucratic Oromo Community Associations and the quest to know where one belongs.

Author : Mario I. Aguilar
Publisher : Africa World Press
ISBN 13 : 9780865435698
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Being Oromo in Kenya written by Mario I. Aguilar and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive exploration and analysis of the Oromo who although mostly living in Ethiopia also form a significant part of the modern republic of Kenya. Based on several years of fieldwork, research into historical archives, and collections of oral narratives, the work will be of interest to all students and academics studying the peoples of East Africa and their cultural, political and national identity. Particular attention is paid to ritual and religious aspects of Oromo life.

Author : Asafa Jalata
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
ISBN 13 : 9781569020661
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse written by Asafa Jalata and published by The Red Sea Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Leenco Lata
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
ISBN 13 : 9781569021217
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethiopian State at the Crossroads written by Leenco Lata and published by The Red Sea Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : A. Jalata
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0312299079
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fighting Against the Injustice of the State and Globalization written by A. Jalata and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-02-08 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book examines, compares, and contrasts the African American and Oromo movements by locating them in the global context, and by showing how life chances changed for the two peoples and their descendants as the modern world system became more complex and developed. Since the same global system that created racialized and exploitative structures in African American and Oromo societies also facilitated the struggles of these two peoples, this book demonstrates the dynamic interplay between social structures and human agencies in the system. African Americans in the United States of America and Oromos in the Ethiopian Empire developed their respective liberation movements in opposition to racial/ethnonational oppression, cultural and colonial domination, exploitation, and underdevelopment. By going beyond its focal point, the book also explores the structural limit of nationalism, and the potential of revolutionary nationalism in promoting a genuine multicultural democracy.

Author : Susanne Epple
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 3643905343
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Creating and Crossing Boundaries in Ethiopia written by Susanne Epple and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2014 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethiopia is best understood as a country with multiple internal divides, but also endless interconnections which are constantly renegotiated. Contributing to the growing literature on the country's cultural diversity, this book offers special emphasis on the contemporary dynamics of intra- and intergroup boundary formation and alteration. It also adds to the more general literature on identity change, boundary transgression of individuals and groups, and cultural contact and change. With contributions from experienced Ethiopian and international scholars, the book offers perspectives on territorial, ethnic, class, caste, gender, and age related boundaries in different parts of the country. (Series: African Studies / Afrikanische Studien - Vol. 53) [Subject: Sociology, African Studies, Cultural Studies]

Author : Herbert S. Lewis
Publisher : The Red Sea Press
ISBN 13 : 9781569020890
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jimma Abba Jifar, an Oromo Monarchy written by Herbert S. Lewis and published by The Red Sea Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kingdom of Jimma Abba Jifar, established ca 1830, was the largest and most powerful of five monarchies formed by the Oromo peoples in south-western Ethiopia. Based on extensive fieldwork in the area, this work presents a study of the history and organisation of Jimma under its most powerful ruler, Abba Jifar II (1878-1932), stressing the political history and structure of Jimma with a comparative perspective which notes similarities and differences in processes and structures to monarchical systems elsewhere in Africa and the world.

Author : Günther Schlee
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
ISBN 13 : 9783825839567
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Imagined Differences written by Günther Schlee and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses key concepts of modern anthropology like "difference" and "identity" in the light of ethnographic evidence from various local settings stretching from Morocco to Indonesia. As the antagonistic and destructive aspects of social identification are also discussed, the book is a contribution to conflict theory, it provides elements of orientation in a world marked by a proliferation of ethnic movements and of nationalisms which become more narrow and more aggressive.