On November 3, 1991, the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) convened a meeting in Finfinne (Addis Ababa), where over 1,000 Oromo intellectuals met to decide the alphabet for Afaan Oromo. After many hours of debate, they decided unanimously to adopt the Latin alphabet, Qubee, the script for Afaan Oromo. Today, it’s 18 years to the date since the adoption of Qubee, and it has been the anchor of Oromummaa, the Oromo identity. The Oromo youth that comes of age since 1991 has been dubbed “the Qubee Generation.”...read more
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