Books about Oromo/ New Books Just Published!!

Author: Asafa Jalata
Book Description: The book examines, compares, and contrasts the African American and Oromo movements by locating them in the global context, and by showing how life chances changed for the two peoples and their descendants as the modern world system became more complex and developed. Since the same global system that created racialized and exploitative structures in African American and Oromo societies also facilitated the struggles of these two peoples, this book demonstrates the dynamic interplay between social structures and human agencies in the system. African Americans in the US and Oromos in the Ethiopian Empire developed their respective liberation movements in opposition to racial/ethnonational oppression, cultural and colonial domination, exploitation, and underdevelopment. By going beyond its focal point, the book also explores the structural limit of nationalism, and the potential of revolutionary nationalism in promoting a genuine multicultural democracy. .....

About the Author: Asafa Jalata is Associate Professor of Sociology and African and African American Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

Author: Asmarom Legesse
Oromo Democracy reveals the many creative solutions that an African society has found for the problems that people encounter when they try to establish a democratic system of governing their affairs. In much of what is written about Afirca, the common image is that of people overned by primitive customs and practices, in which only the feudal roles of elders, kings, chiefs, sultans, and emirs have been acknowledged by Western observers. .....

Historical and Anthropological Enquiries
Edited by P.T.W. Baxter, Jan Hultin & Alessandro Triulzi

The workshop, Being and Becoming Oromo, held in October 1994, was hosted jointly by the Nordic Africa Institute and the Department of Social Anthropology, University of Gothenburg. The purpose was to bring together scholars from different disciplines working on the Oromiffa speaking people of Ethiopia and Northern Kenya. .....

Edited by Asafa Jalata
Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom and Democracy, by Asafa Jalata (editor), Red Sea Press, NJ, 1998. Pp.xii+301, ISBN 1-56902-066-3 (Pb). .....

Author: Mohammed Hassen
A histor 15 - 1860 .....

By: Lewis, Herbert S.
Hardcover: JIMMA ABBA JIFAR : An Oromo Monarchy Ethiopia 1830-1932 With a Post-Script; Lewis, Herbert S. - .....

By: Gadaa Melbaa
An account of the Oromo people of East Africa to affirm their place in history. The Oromo make up a significant portion of the Horn of Africa population and approximately half of the population of Ethiopia. This work lifts up the people, their culture, and their struggles. .....
paper ISBN 1-886513-18-X

Author: Dr. Tolesa, Addisu
A study of Geerarsa, a type of folksong of Ethiopia's Oromo people, who reside in Oromia and Ethiopia as well as in diaspora in the West. In exploring their verbal art it attempts to address the social base and political scope of Oromo folklore. It presents Geerarsa as an important part of the Oromo's values, attitudes, and history as they have struggled, and continue to struggle, against colonial oppression and win back their cultural and national identity. .....