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| Title: | Special issue: the Oromo in Ethiopian studies: confronting challenges to politically engaged scholarship |
| Editor: | Gebissa, Ezekiel |
| Year: | 2002 |
| Periodical: | Northeast African Studies (ISSN 0740-9133) |
| Volume: | 9 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 192 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Ethiopia |
| Subjects: | Oromo Ethiopian studies ethnic identity human rights nationalism Jimma polity farming systems political history 1900-1999 |
| About person: | John Sorenson (1952-) |
| External link: | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/northeast_african_studies/toc/nas9.3.html |
| Abstract: | This special issue on the Oromo in Ethiopian studies presents Oromo studies from the Oromo perspective, challenging the authority and authenticity of established - Ethiopianist - notions about the Oromo, tracing the processes by which the distorted image has been elaborated, and deconstructing the official historical discourse. Contributions: Introduction: rendering audible the voices of the powerless, by Ezekiel Gebissa; Conquest, tyranny, and ethnocide against the Oromo: a historical assessment of human rights conditions in Ethiopia, ca. 1880s-2002, by Mohammed Hassen; The rise of coffee and the demise of colonial autonomy: the Oromo kingdom of Jimma and political centralization in Ethiopia, by Guluma Gemeda; The Italian invasion, the Ethiopian empire, and Oromo nationalism: the significance of the Western Oromo Confederation of 1936, by Ezekiel Gebissa; 'Bribing the land': an appraisal of the farming systems of the Maccaa Oromo in Wallagga, by Tesema Ta'a; A nation without a city [a blind person without a cane]: the Oromo struggle for Addis Ababa, by Getahun Benti; The place of the Oromo diaspora in the Oromo national movement: lessons from the agency of the 'old' African diaspora in the United States, by Asafa Jalata; At issue: learning not to become Oromo - chasing the ghosts chasing John Sorenson, by Martha Kuwee Kumsa. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
