Both Dr. Léncô and Dr. Marara Imply that Democratizing Ethiopia is Tantamount to Fostering Oropia!
I listned to two interviews given by Dr. Léncô Latà and Dr. Marara Gudina respectively. Both of them said that in a democratized Ethiopia, Oromo and Oromummà shall have the leading position because of our demographic majority, big economic contribution and geographic central position. Of course, with such statement, they are implyinhg that democratization of Ethiopia is tantamount to fostering Oropia (Oromummà led country). Thus, the only things on which Oromo forces need to agree are democratization of Ethiopia and promotion of Afàn Oromô to a primary working language of the federation, replacing Amarigna. Anti-Oromo forces know this fact and mechanism very well, which is why they vehmently act dictatorially to hinder the democratization process. I personally would like to encourage Oromo nationalists to unanimously struggle for freedom and democracy in order to own our gross salary (Oropia), instead of naively strive to earn only our net salary (Oromia).
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Re: Both Dr. Léncô and Dr. Marara Imply that Democratizing Ethiopia is Tantamount to Fostering Oropia!
OPPfist,
Do you know the operational definition majority?
"A majority is more than half of a total. It is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements. For example, if a group consists of 31 individuals, a majority would be 16 or more individuals, while having 15 or fewer individuals would not constitute a majority." Wikipedia Contributors (2025). Majority. Wikipedia.
Thus, Oromo does not make up at least 51% of the population of Ethiopia. The share of Oromo could fall between 25% - 33%. A huge differnce from the minimum 51% threshold.
Stop f@rting lies - your sh!t Orommuma mouth sh!t too much propaganda lie - not helpful for Oromo. Oromos are not majority.
Do you know the operational definition majority?
"A majority is more than half of a total. It is a subset of a set consisting of more than half of the set's elements. For example, if a group consists of 31 individuals, a majority would be 16 or more individuals, while having 15 or fewer individuals would not constitute a majority." Wikipedia Contributors (2025). Majority. Wikipedia.
Thus, Oromo does not make up at least 51% of the population of Ethiopia. The share of Oromo could fall between 25% - 33%. A huge differnce from the minimum 51% threshold.
Stop f@rting lies - your sh!t Orommuma mouth sh!t too much propaganda lie - not helpful for Oromo. Oromos are not majority.
Re: Both Dr. Léncô and Dr. Marara Imply that Democratizing Ethiopia is Tantamount to Fostering Oropia!
The era of struggling for recognition of Oromo’s identity and Oromia’s sovereignty is almost over. Now, there is no more Abyssinian political domination over Oromia. Thanks to Oromo movement, Abyssinian dominated Ethiopia is dead. Oromian led Ethiopia is flourishing. Oromia’s politics should be more inclusive and accomodative. It is time for the Oromo to emphasize Ethiopian general politics being beyound asserting only Oromia and Oromumma. We need to walk the talk of democratizing and transforming Ethiopia. The colonial narrative has already served its purpose of mobilizing the Oromo for freedom; now, the cushitic narrative is more advantegeous for promotion of optimal type of sovereignty. Hate politics was necessary to motivate people against the system of domination; at present, more relevant is the politics of love for the sake of stabilization. The Oromo being in the leadership position have to be magnanimous and farsighted. Surely, democratic Ethiopia will be de facto Oropia, which serves Oromo interest better than only decolonizing Oromia.
Surprisingly, the TPLF we despised at the beginning of its move towards Caffee Araaraa (Arat Kilo) ruled us with brute force for quarter of a century. Our separated and sporadic resistance against it didn’t work for long time. Especially, lack of cooperation between the two opposition camps (pro self rule liberation fronts and pro shared rule unity forces), was the main cause for our failure. No need to write more about the already well known common political problem we had, but let’s think about our common future solution. First of all, I would like to suggest that we do agree on common citizens’ and cultural identity: being Oromian as a synthetic identity of being Ethiopian (citizen identity) vs being Oromo (cultural identity), the two identities we used to antagonize till now.
This approach of equating Ethiopia to Oropia or using the two designations interchangeably can solve our problem regarding the controversy around the name – Ethiopia:
– certain Ethio-nationalists love this name because of its appearance in the Holy Book and its ancient meaning as the glorious Cushitic kingdom.
– some Ethno-nationalists hate it because of the association with Habesha dominattion and with exclusively Christian kingom of the past Abyssinian history.
– few from both sides are ambivalent, just trying to be rational and wanting to use or avoid the naming pragmatically.
I think now, it is time to work on a common solution for the common political problem we do have. The TPLF already showed its uncompromising desire to stand on power by “winning the election 100%”. President Obama already went to “celebrate the victory”, just for the sake of using the TPLF as servant of America’s geopolitical interest in the region. We liked it or not, the only way to get rid of the apartheid/domination system was through forging a necessary unity of purpose; of course the common purpose is freedom from the system. Such unity was not necessarily structural, but it could be an alliance by default, which was practiced by targetting only the TPLF and by avoiding any wastage of resource in the horizontal fighting. All organizaions struggling for freedom from this system could encircle the regime in Caffee Araaraa 360°, both figuratively and realistically. It was absurd to quarrel on “which way is better: non-violent or per-violent?”, as pro-unity forces were doing in different cyber and public forums. Actually, as Oromians (Ethiopians) in general, we could accomodate both ways of the struggle; but specifically, as individuals or organzations, we could choose one of the two, without denouncing the one we didn’t prefer. Further more, we had to avoid any division based on our past history or our far future; we leaved our pre-Woyane history for historians and the post-Woyane decision for the stake-holder peoples of the country, so that we could concentrate on the struggle for freedom.
To be effective in our fighting, we reduced the talks and writings we excercised, but increased the necessary thinking to walk in a very pragmatic way. We heard and read the principle “action speaks louder than words” very often. Those of us, who really wanted freedom had to be practical personalities; it was better to act for 5 minutes than talk for 5 days. What were the concrete important actions to be taken for a success of our cooperation? Here were few points of the necessary list:
– stopped horizontal fight between the anti-Woyane forces.
– forged an alliance by design and didn’t spoil the existing alliance by default.
– those in diaspora moved back home like the ODF already planned, be it per Bole for non-violent struggle or through Bale for armed struggle.
– the diaspora saw themselves more as support group rather than as determining freedom fighters; their main contribution being to provide the 3M’s (money, media & military) support.
– the main activity at home was more undergound, not to expose the productive personalities, as usually was the case during the past ritual “election” processes.
– tried to accomodate both self rule and shared rule, instead of polarizing/antagonizing them and rejecting one for benefit of one position at cost of the other.
– etc
In short, both the non-violent and per-violent struggles focused at home being supported by the huge resource of the diaspora. The struggle needed perseverance like running marathon; it was not similar to a short, but exhaustive sprint. We remembered again and again: unallied we fail, united we prevail. The TPLF leaders knew this more than anyone of us; that is why Meles Zenawi once said: “the TPLF has got historical advantage to rule the country for a century, because of the Amhara-Oromo conflict.” Unfortunately he was right; the elites from the two big nations feared, hated and sabotaged each other more than they did fight the TPLF. They thought with the pre-1991 mentality; the situation of both nations was already changed, but the solution in the mind of the elites was not changed. Then came the time for these elites to decide: either we cooperate and be free together or dwell on the old conflict and live as slaves of TPLF’s brutal system of ethnic apartheid for a century. We should not only speak and write about this indispensable way of struggle in unison, but also we had to walk the talk.
My message in this short opinion is clear: an inclusive unity of purpose for victory was inevitable; I used to write on this issue of alliance against the system repeatedly. As Dr. Marara put in his interview with SBS radio once, the anti-Woyane forces needed to do their homework of empowering freedom fighters through necessary cooperation of the two opposition camps on a common denominator or middle ground of ‘self rule with shared rule’, as suggested by democratic federalists. It was good to hear that Oromo liberation fronts were consolidating their unity; it was also encouraging to see pro-unity forces coming together and even suggesting a formation of an inclusive government in exile. But only unity of groups in their respective camp was not enough; there must also have been an efficient and working alliance of the two blocs against the system. Such approach of structural unity was tried repeatedly in the last 30 years, but failed. Could we learn from our mistakes and come up with working mechanism against the tyrants or were we doomed to be ruled and exploited further. The choice was ours: either walk the talk of alliance for freedom or live under the system of domination/apartheid/slavery/internal colony/tyranny for a century! Fortunately, we chose the way of alliance, so that ADP and ODP cooperated to oust the TPLF from Finfinne palace. These two big parties can push forward to democratize and transform Ethiopia. Especially ODP leading the Oromo should have committed itself for this move and the Oromo in general can shift our paradigm totally from an independent Oromia to an integrative Oropia (i.e democratic Ethiopia) which I think is more beneficial. Let the Oromo walk this talk of democratization and transformation. May Waaqa help us choose this!
Surprisingly, the TPLF we despised at the beginning of its move towards Caffee Araaraa (Arat Kilo) ruled us with brute force for quarter of a century. Our separated and sporadic resistance against it didn’t work for long time. Especially, lack of cooperation between the two opposition camps (pro self rule liberation fronts and pro shared rule unity forces), was the main cause for our failure. No need to write more about the already well known common political problem we had, but let’s think about our common future solution. First of all, I would like to suggest that we do agree on common citizens’ and cultural identity: being Oromian as a synthetic identity of being Ethiopian (citizen identity) vs being Oromo (cultural identity), the two identities we used to antagonize till now.
This approach of equating Ethiopia to Oropia or using the two designations interchangeably can solve our problem regarding the controversy around the name – Ethiopia:
– certain Ethio-nationalists love this name because of its appearance in the Holy Book and its ancient meaning as the glorious Cushitic kingdom.
– some Ethno-nationalists hate it because of the association with Habesha dominattion and with exclusively Christian kingom of the past Abyssinian history.
– few from both sides are ambivalent, just trying to be rational and wanting to use or avoid the naming pragmatically.
I think now, it is time to work on a common solution for the common political problem we do have. The TPLF already showed its uncompromising desire to stand on power by “winning the election 100%”. President Obama already went to “celebrate the victory”, just for the sake of using the TPLF as servant of America’s geopolitical interest in the region. We liked it or not, the only way to get rid of the apartheid/domination system was through forging a necessary unity of purpose; of course the common purpose is freedom from the system. Such unity was not necessarily structural, but it could be an alliance by default, which was practiced by targetting only the TPLF and by avoiding any wastage of resource in the horizontal fighting. All organizaions struggling for freedom from this system could encircle the regime in Caffee Araaraa 360°, both figuratively and realistically. It was absurd to quarrel on “which way is better: non-violent or per-violent?”, as pro-unity forces were doing in different cyber and public forums. Actually, as Oromians (Ethiopians) in general, we could accomodate both ways of the struggle; but specifically, as individuals or organzations, we could choose one of the two, without denouncing the one we didn’t prefer. Further more, we had to avoid any division based on our past history or our far future; we leaved our pre-Woyane history for historians and the post-Woyane decision for the stake-holder peoples of the country, so that we could concentrate on the struggle for freedom.
To be effective in our fighting, we reduced the talks and writings we excercised, but increased the necessary thinking to walk in a very pragmatic way. We heard and read the principle “action speaks louder than words” very often. Those of us, who really wanted freedom had to be practical personalities; it was better to act for 5 minutes than talk for 5 days. What were the concrete important actions to be taken for a success of our cooperation? Here were few points of the necessary list:
– stopped horizontal fight between the anti-Woyane forces.
– forged an alliance by design and didn’t spoil the existing alliance by default.
– those in diaspora moved back home like the ODF already planned, be it per Bole for non-violent struggle or through Bale for armed struggle.
– the diaspora saw themselves more as support group rather than as determining freedom fighters; their main contribution being to provide the 3M’s (money, media & military) support.
– the main activity at home was more undergound, not to expose the productive personalities, as usually was the case during the past ritual “election” processes.
– tried to accomodate both self rule and shared rule, instead of polarizing/antagonizing them and rejecting one for benefit of one position at cost of the other.
– etc
In short, both the non-violent and per-violent struggles focused at home being supported by the huge resource of the diaspora. The struggle needed perseverance like running marathon; it was not similar to a short, but exhaustive sprint. We remembered again and again: unallied we fail, united we prevail. The TPLF leaders knew this more than anyone of us; that is why Meles Zenawi once said: “the TPLF has got historical advantage to rule the country for a century, because of the Amhara-Oromo conflict.” Unfortunately he was right; the elites from the two big nations feared, hated and sabotaged each other more than they did fight the TPLF. They thought with the pre-1991 mentality; the situation of both nations was already changed, but the solution in the mind of the elites was not changed. Then came the time for these elites to decide: either we cooperate and be free together or dwell on the old conflict and live as slaves of TPLF’s brutal system of ethnic apartheid for a century. We should not only speak and write about this indispensable way of struggle in unison, but also we had to walk the talk.
My message in this short opinion is clear: an inclusive unity of purpose for victory was inevitable; I used to write on this issue of alliance against the system repeatedly. As Dr. Marara put in his interview with SBS radio once, the anti-Woyane forces needed to do their homework of empowering freedom fighters through necessary cooperation of the two opposition camps on a common denominator or middle ground of ‘self rule with shared rule’, as suggested by democratic federalists. It was good to hear that Oromo liberation fronts were consolidating their unity; it was also encouraging to see pro-unity forces coming together and even suggesting a formation of an inclusive government in exile. But only unity of groups in their respective camp was not enough; there must also have been an efficient and working alliance of the two blocs against the system. Such approach of structural unity was tried repeatedly in the last 30 years, but failed. Could we learn from our mistakes and come up with working mechanism against the tyrants or were we doomed to be ruled and exploited further. The choice was ours: either walk the talk of alliance for freedom or live under the system of domination/apartheid/slavery/internal colony/tyranny for a century! Fortunately, we chose the way of alliance, so that ADP and ODP cooperated to oust the TPLF from Finfinne palace. These two big parties can push forward to democratize and transform Ethiopia. Especially ODP leading the Oromo should have committed itself for this move and the Oromo in general can shift our paradigm totally from an independent Oromia to an integrative Oropia (i.e democratic Ethiopia) which I think is more beneficial. Let the Oromo walk this talk of democratization and transformation. May Waaqa help us choose this!