The Cushite (see Demie, 1998) Oromo people have inhibited their homeland,
Oromia, since pre-history and in antiquity were the agents of humanity’s
documented Cushitic civilisation in terms of science, technology, art,
political and moral philosophy. The links between the Oromo and the ancient
civilisations of Cush and Egypt has been discussed in Asfaw Beyene
(1992) and John Sorenson (1998) scholarly works. Utilising prodigious
evidence from history, philosophy, archaeology and linguistics, Diop (1974
and 1991) confirms that the Cushite Egyptian civilisation was emerged from
the Cushite civilisations of North East Africa, particularly, the present
day Western Sudan and upper Nile Oromia (also known as Cush or Punt).
Indeed, except the name of places, saints and prophets, many of the Old
Testament and the Holy Koran moral texts are copies of the Oromo moral
codes. The formers are written documents while the latter are orally
transmitted.

Since the late 1880s the Oromo people have lost their sovereignty. They
lost their autonomous institutions of governance, culture, education,
creativity, business, commerce, etc. Thus, they have been claiming for
national self-determination, national-self government and the right to
their
own state and resist the Abyssinian Empire (supremacist’s)
nationalism. The Oromos are not only against the quality of Ethiopian
Empire
governance but also against the philosophy on which it is based:
domination,
dehumanisation, inequality, double standard, hypocrisy, deceit, exclusion,
chauvinism, war institution, rent-seeking, extractive state, conservatism,
feudalism, fundamentalism ( Tewodros,Yohannis, Menelik,
Haile Sellasie), etc.