| Homepage | Translator | US Crusade | Trinicenter | Terms of use |
|
|
|
| Rasta Links | Free for All Archive | Free for All Board | Rastafari Speaks Board |
|
This board contains posts from the previous month and the current month. Search Archives for older posts. |
| |
Re: respect the oromo cushite
Posted By: barney In Response To: Re: respect the oromo cushite (Warrior Cherub)
Date: Tuesday, 15 July 2003, at 12:27 a.m.
The Oromo people are one of the ancient people of the region. The Oromo people belong to the Cushitic group of people that inhabited the southern half of the western Red Sea coast, and the whole of Horn of Africa including the coastal areas and hinterlands. The Afar, Somali, Saho, and Sidama are some of the Cushitic people of Africa. These people are related to ancient Egyptian (Nubians), and are the original inhabitants of the region. Their history in the region is more than the three thousand years claimed by the Abyssinians. Ever since their arrival from south Arabia, the Abyssinians have been encroaching on the Cushitic land, and slowly pushing the Cushitic people in different directions. This movement was checked and stopped by the Oromos in the sixteenth century. The make believe history of the so called "Galla Migration" of the sixteenth century is a war of liberation from the Abyssinians who were slowly encroaching on the Cushitic and other people's lands. Abyssinians desire to control the resources of the Oromos and other people living in what today is known as southern Ethiopia, led to a bad relationship of war and instability in the region. During the second half of the nineteenth century, Abyssinia with the help of European arms, military advisors and commanders from Russia and France succeeded to colonize Oromiyaa and other people of the southern Ethiopia. Ethiopia, as it is known today has never existed before, and present Ethiopia is a colonial creation of no more than a century old. For more details click on History of Oromia Oromo.
The Cushitic speakers have inhabited north-eastern and eastern Africa for as long as recorded history. The land of Cush, Nubia or the ancient Ethiopia in middle and lower Nile is the home of the Cushitic speakers. It were distorted in the Ethiopian historiography
The Oromo are the third largest national group in Africa. The Oromo constitute nearly half of the population of Ethiopia and they are the single largest national group in the Horn of Africa, as well as in eastern, central and southern parts of Africa. Before their conquest and colonization by the Abyssinians during and after the 1870s, the Oromo led an independent existence as masters of their destiny and makers of their own history. During the many centuries of their independent existence the Oromo developed a democratic form of government, known as the gada system. From the time of their conquest and colonization and up to the 1980s the study of Oromo history, culture, language, the fascinating gada system and the rich Oromo heritage were distorted in the Ethiopian historiography
There that they subsequently dispersed and became differentiated into separate linguistic and cultural groups. The various Cushitic nations inhabitingnorth-east and east Africa today are the result of this dispersion and differentiation.
TheOromo form one of those groups which spread southwards and then east and west occupying large part of the Horn of Africa. Their physical features, culture, language and other evidences unequivocally point to the fact that they are indigenous to this part of Africa. Available information clearly indicates that the Oromo existed as a community of people for thousands of years in East Africa.
The Oromos were a very ancient race, the indigenous stock, perhaps, on which most other peoples in this part of eastern Africa have been grafted In spite of the fact that there are several indications and evidences that Oromo are indigenous to this part of Africa, Abyssinian rulers, court historians and monks contend thatOromo were new comers to the region and did not belong here.
| |
Forum is maintained by Administrator with RastafariSpeaks 5.12.