Oromiyaa

09/07/2024

Nightscapes of Lotte World Tower in Jamsil, Seoul, Korea

25/06/2024

When I was a child, my father used to buy CD records of Oromo songs from Eastleigh, Nairobi. I grew up listening to Mohamed Sheka, a prominent artist who fled

26/05/2023

The 13th Ethiopian Nations and Nationalities Day Celebrations in 2018 Addis Abeba. Photo: Anadulu By Abdi Biyenssa & Beka Atoma Boru Addis Abeba - On 16 May, a government-funded policy think tank, Policy Studies Institute (PSI) released an unprecedented research that no one […...

05/05/2023

(Let us not tire to tell everybody repeatedly that we are not who they want us to be but who we tell them we are) Oromo is one of the branches of Kuusaa or Kush. Kuusaa, as the oldest cradles of hu…

03/02/2023

The rift within the Ethiopian Orthodox Church is unprecedented in magnitude and likely to determine the future of Ethiopia itself.

02/02/2023

02/02/2023

A former government official recounts how the prime minister’s failed reform agenda paved the way for war in Tigray.

02/02/2023

https://www.amazon.com/Land-Tiller-interview-Zegeye-Asfaw/dp/1916364705

In 1974, one of the most extensive land reform programmes in history returned the land from the Ethiopian aristocracy to the people who tilled it. Overseeing this land reform was an inspiring but humble figure, Zegeye Asfaw, Oromo and Ethiopian. In this 2012 interview Zegeye tells the story of hi...

02/02/2023

The Oromo movement has gone through two major revolutions that have changed the trajectory of the empire so far.