Arsi oromo political and military resistance against the shoan. This is a mini documentary about the oromo people that i produced and presented on annual refugee film festival 20 at british film institute bfi. The aim of this study is to explore the ethnographic history of the study of oromo folklore based mainly on secondary sources from early oromo ethnology, philology, folklore collection, and travel writings. The oromo, who constitute nearly half the population of ethiopia, are the largest single national group in the horn of africa. The arsi in all zones speak the same language, oromo, and share the same culture and traditions. This study deals mainly with the history of the oromo of the area the gibe region. For instance when the arsi oromo arrived and settled in their current habitat. View history of oromo wollega oromo research papers on academia. This dissertation examines ateetee, a sung arsi oromo womens indigenous dispute. Arsi oromo is one of the branches of the oromo people inhabiting the oromia region, mainly in the arsi, west arsi and bale zones of ethiopia, as well as in the adami tullu and jido kombolcha woreda of misraq shewa zone. Arsi bale arsi oromo is one of the branches of the oromo people inhabiting the oromia region, mainly in the arsi, west arsi and. Ateetee, an arsi oromo womens sung dispute resolution. It is erected as a tribute to the arsi oromo whose hands and breasts were mutilated by 19th century ethiopian emperor menelik ii.
Oromia, ethiopia, oromo boranaarsiguji, afroasiatic. Experience from siinqee of the wayyu shanan arsi oromo in adami tullu. Fuulli kun sagantaalee aadaa fi seenaale oromo arsii adda addaa qopheessuuf dhaabatte. This paper is on the function of oral traditions among the arsi oromo of ethiopia. Islam, the orthodox church and oromo nationalism \ethiopia\. Pdf the pro and counter narratives of anoole memorial.
Ras hamalmal fought luba michile mesle at dago in arsi province in around 1560, thus repulsing the oromo invaders from occupying kambata and the adjacent territories which were then under the christian empire. The omap davinci software dummies book pdf arsioromo oral arts in focus pdf. He is already popular among oromo s in oromia as wel as abroad. Arsi oromo is one of the branches of the oromo people inhabiting the oromia region, mainly in. Federal democratic republic of ethiopia population and. Before the coming of islam and christianity, the arsi were followers of waaqeffannaa belief in sky god. The oromo had at that time a form of constitutional government known as gada. The functions of african omani labour law 2012 pdf oral arts. Located 150kms from the capital addis ababa, aanolee is a site steeped in oromo history.
Arsioromo culture and history, mueang sakon nakhon. A history, 15701860 by mohammed hassen pdf, epub ebook d0wnl0ad. Oromo history began in the sixteenth century when the oromo were actively recapturing their territories and rolling back the christian and muslim empires. Hamalmal firmly retained his governorship of the kingdom of kambata, long after the oromo invasions.
They claim to have descended from a single individual called arse. The region has common border with all regional states of the federal democratic republic of ethiopia, except tigray national regional state. The oromo people is the largest of the cushitic speaking groups of people in africa and also the largest ethinic group of ethiopia. Pdf this article aimed at investigating wijjoo, an indigenous socio economic and political institution of oromo women. As madda walaabuu stood as the cradle and greatness of the oromo, aanolee came to represent its humiliation. Yet the history of the oromo has been totally neglected. In the modern ethiopian history 1855 present several. The oromo have lived for their known history in the horn of africa as these related peoples.