Every Oromo: A Leader in the Oromia Liberation Struggle (Part IV)

Dr. Muhammad Shamsaddin Megalommatis

September 08, 2008

In three previous articles (´A Transcendental Approach to the Need for Oromo Leadership – Part I´ http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/72787 / ´A Transcendental Approach to the Need for Oromo Leadership – Part II / http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/72897 – A Transcendental Approach to the Need for Oromo Leadership – Part III / http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/73014), I focused on the weaknesses of the traditional political leadership, and I deployed an effort of identification of the Oromo Nation in 2008. Then, I expanded on foe identification, demonstrating that throughout centuries the Amhara Abyssinians have been the undisputed enemy of the Oromo Nation at the local – regional level.

Furthermore, I stressed the point that the Oromos have also been the victims of indirect colonialism, as the English urged the Abyssinians to expand at the prejudice of the Oromos and other Kushitic African nations, because of their open, democratic – and therefore impenetrable – sociopolitical sy6stems (Gadaa in the case of the Oromos).

Finally, I underscored the need to establish a differentiation among the colonial powers in an analysis of the colonial attitude and policy at both, the physical and the socio-behavioural – cultural levels. I concluded that, for the Oromos, Italy was (and was correctly considered as) a more ´preferable´ provisory foreign ruler than the Amhara and Tigray Monophysitic Abyssinians. I also affirmed that the Anglo - French colonial establishment has been the real arch-enemy of the Oromo Nation. read more