Oromo in a sentence

Demographics Oromo distance running champion Kenenisa Bekele Oromo track and field athlete Maryam Yusuf Jamal The Oromo people are the largest ethnic grouping in Ethiopia, which has a total of 74 ethnically diverse language groups.

Waaqeffanna was around for over 400 years before non-Oromo governments ruled the Oromo tribal land.

He needs to make his transformation a prominent part of his political narrative both to re-educate the Oromo youth and win the confidence and support of moderate forces both inside and outside of the Oromo tribal homeland.

Through it all, the Oromo liberation grievance theology has remained constant and has made Oromo politics a self-defeating phenomenon of eternal grievance and stupidity.

Addis Abeba — Opposition party Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), said yesterday that ten of its members, including two journalists working for its broadcast, Sagaallee Billiisummaa Oromo (SBO), were arrested by government security forces over the weekend.

Most Oromo nationalists consider themselves Oromo first and only accept Ethiopian identity with conditions.

In other words, the Abij-Megersa – ship has particular socio-cultural (Amhara-Oromo) portion of the Oromo nation on board, which is being swayed side ways by those affiliations in an tempestuous sea.

Based on the verbal artistry of the Oromo, it appears that the Oromo form is prior to the Alaaba or Amharic, though it could be borrowed from yet another language.

Kjetil Tronvoll, Ethiopia, a new start?, (Minority Rights Group: 2000) Haile Selassie's mother was paternally of Oromo descent and maternally of Gurage heritage, while his father was paternally Oromo and maternally Amhara.

Language The Oromo speak the Oromo language as a mother tongue (also known as Afaan Oromoo and Oromiffa).

In the 1960s, Radio Mogadishu was modernized with assistance from the Soviet Union, and began broadcasting in Amharic, Oromo, Somali and Italian.

The groups were the Nama (Khoe-San from South Africa); the Mende (from Sierra Leone); the Gumuz (recent descendants of a hunter-gatherer group from Ethiopia); and the Amhara and Oromo (agriculturalists from eastern Africa).

The implication is that the fight is between Amhara and Oromo.

The last monarch, Emperor Haile Selassie, had Amhara and Oromo parents, as does Abiy himself.

The situation is complicated, contradictory narratives, denials and accusations abound; dis-misinformation is being propounded by the OLA through sympathetic media outlets such as the Oromo Media Network (OMN) Kush Media Network (KMN).

He wanted to create an Islamic power within Oromo.

He was active in Oromo student movements when he was at secondary school and was imprisoned by the government when he was just 17 years old, spending five years behind bars because of his activism.

The process of assimilation and Oromization of non-Oromos seems to have been smooth and rapid, and the adoption of Oromo identity by newcomers proved to be total.

Abiy Ahmed’s best survival card was the peace-making with Eritrea, the Ogaden Somali Liberation Front and the Oromo Liberation Front.

Are the OLF mercenaries and the extremist groups of the Oromo youth (Queeroo) just naïve confused youngsters obeying their bosses?