Draped in traditional colours including the red, white and black of the Oromo flag, crowds descended on the shores of Lake Hora Arsadi, 50km (30 miles) southeast of Addis Ababa, for the annual ...
Dima Negewo is an Ethiopian politician, diplomat, and academic who serves as an independent Member of Parliament. Within the ...
Ethiopia’s Oromo people have an indigenous philosophy known as Namummaa, or “humanness”, which places relationships and peace at the centre of social life. The Oromo are Ethiopia’s most populous ...
This article is published in partnership with Ethiopia Insight. “It was crazy,” he said. “You never knew if a bullet or a piece of rock would land on you.” His hometown Dire Dawa, often portrayed in ...
In the forests of Ethiopia’s largest region, a shadow war grinds on. Hunted by government drones, Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) commander Jaal Marroo denies his fighters target civilians. Yet, as a ...
Hawani's story / Hawani Debella and Aneesa Kassam -- The Development of Oromo political consciousness from 1958 to 1994 / Herbert S. Lewis -- The Survival and reconstruction of Oromo national identity ...