In Memoriam for the great Oromo artist, Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, assassinated on June 30, 2020. Oromo music has played a central role in providing alternative spaces for enunciating ‘the Oromo question’.

Jiraattoonni Godina Hararge Lixaa Aanaa Xuulloo miseensonni maatiisaanii Raayyaa Ittisaa Itoophiyaatti dabalamuu didnaan qaamoleen nageenyaa mootummaa isaan reebuufi hidhuu BBC himatan. Bulchaan Aanaa ...

The Oromo people have not been able to dominate the politics of Ethiopia, as the Amhara and Tigrinya people have dominated the empire's governance. Nonetheless, the Oromo's ancestral principle of ...

Since the Ethiopian government announced plans to expand the territory of the capital Addis Ababa in April 2014, the country's largest region, Oromia, has been racked with protests that have led to ...

Ethiopia has seen deadly unrest since Oromo singer Hachalu Hundessa was shot dead at the end of June, with Oromos denouncing their marginalisation within a country that many experts are saying is ...

On 6 May 2021, the Ethiopian House of People’s Representatives approved a decision from the Council of Ministers to designate the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Oromo Liberation Front ...

Food is a focus of symbolic activity about social life in every place of Oromo society. A growing number of studies have contributed to the study of food and culture. This is because the study of ...

The Borana Oromo, also called the Boran, are a pastoralist ethnic group living in southern Ethiopia (Oromia) and northern Kenya. They are a moiety of the Oromo people, the other being the Barentu ...

Alison Phipps receives funding from UKRI and Europe. She is affiliated with Scottish Government as Convener of the New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy and with UNESCO, as UNESCO Chair. We are in ...

The unsolved fatal shooting of the celebrated Oromo resistance singer has ruptured Ethiopia's brittle political system. Can talks on a national scale avert a bad-to-worse outcome for the multiethnic ...

Asafa Jalata does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond their ...