Senior research and teaching fellow, Department of Geography, University of Zurich Music has played a key role in the Oromo resistance movement. As is the case in many other societies – especially ...

The Oromo belong to the speakers of the Cushitic languages who had lived in the Horn of Africa for tousands of years. The Oromo are one of the most original inhabitants of what is today Ethiopia and ...

"Everyday I walk in this city, I know I walk alongside death," singer Hachalu Hundessa said just days before he was shot dead in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on 28 June. We hear how the 34-year ...