As we all know, there were a lot of Oromo organizations formed to struggle for national freedom since many decades ago. Their hitherto ideologies and visions can be categorized into three: a multinational federation (shared-rule of Great Oromia with self-rule of Golden Oromia); an independent state (Gadaa republic of Golden Oromia); and a multi-regional federation (shared-rule of Great Oromia without self-rule of Golden Oromia, but with self-rule of Oromia’s six or more traditional regions). The first generation of the national liberation movement took only one of the first two goals as their vision (that is why they claim to be arrab-tokkee = single-tongued = “principled”); the second generation used both of the first visions as alternative goals (thus called arrab-lamee = double-tongued); but, there is not yet one organization, which tried/tries to accommodate or entertain the three objectives (to be arrab-sadee = triple-tongued = accommodative and inclusive). The Oromo national liberation struggle is part and parcel of the national liberation movement of the Cushitic nations in the Horn of Africa against the alien forces of colonization, exploitation and domination in the last 3000 years. These Cushitic nations are actually called Oromota in the Macaafa Qulqullu (Bible in Afan Oromo), the word which describes the non-Semitics and those who did influence the ancient Egypt and ancient Israel. Oromota were known as the people of Cush or lately renamed by the Greeks as the people of Ethiopia (land of the burnt faces). As some part of the Cushland later became under the Semitic influence, the Cushites took the authoritarian culture of these alien forces and became Abyssinia, the name given to them by the Portuguese; and, it means the ‘land of mixed.’ Actually, the Cushitic nations are neither “mixed” nor burnt, but they are the brave Cushitic Oromota.
Posted on: Mon, 07 Oct 2013 12:44:11 +0000
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