Finfinné: the Beautiful Capital City of Oromia, Ethiopia and Africa!
By Fayyis Oromia*
What a nice previlage for the Oromo to have Finfinné As a beautiful Capital City of Oromia, Ethiopia and Africa. We only need to promote Afàn Oromo to its leadership position in the city. As long as the power center (Finfinné palace) is under domination of Amarigna, Ethiopia is de facto Amapia (Amaranet dominated country). This Amarigna domination of the palace is going on since the era of Yekuno Amlak (1270) to present time of Abiy Ahmed. At the time of change in 2018, Dr. Abiy entered the palace with his family in Oromo attire and gave the semblance of taking over the palace by the Oromo. That phenomen was changed quickly and Dr. Abiy and his staff started to speak more Amarigna than Oromiffà. This shows that his rule is more pro-Amarigna than pro-Oromiffà. Anti-Oromo forces accuse his government wrongly as pro-Oromiffà. They are actually expressing their fear that pro-Oromiffà nationalists may take over the palace. That is why they explicitly started to curse and fight Oromummà (Oromo’s identity). I hope that genuine Oromo nationalists shall take power in Finfinné palace soon and legitimatly promote Oromiffà firstly in the palace, secondly in Finfinné, then to other areas in a ripple process towards the whole globe.
I think if Oromo nationalists are smart enough to play the favourable political cards we do now have in hand, we can consolidate our power in Finfinné palace, liberate Oromia from any sort of Abesha domination, continue our legitimate leadership of Ethiopia, integrate the Horn, help in fostering United States of Africa and play our share in development of the World. This ripple influence of Oromo politics starting from Finfinné palace and playing its part in the whole globe needs to be common vision of all genuine Oromo nationalists. To materalize this, Afàn Oromô should be promoted to primary working language of Ethiopia and that of African Union; Gadà democracy has to be modernized and if possible used in the whole Africa and of course Angô Oromo (power) in Finfinné palace must be consolidated for long term. By owning Finfinné as our center of power, we can entertain to foster Oromia of multiple layers: Cororomia (OLF’s map), Ethioromia (Ethiopia led by Oromummà), Hornoromia (the Horn under influence of Oromummà), Afrioromia (African federation being adminstred from Finfinné of Oromummà) and Globoromia (the Glob as the biggest home of the Oromo).
Ob. Léncô Latà once wrote on the importance of multi-national federation and how the trend in the Globe looks like. Nations are striving to contain three things (culture, power and economy) using different levels of adminstrative structures: sub-state level to contain their culture, state level to capture and keep power as well as supra-state integration to have a benefit economically. That is exactely what Oromo elites being led by Dr. Abiy had to achieve. Now, the Oromo are free to play our legitimate role in the world. We should be smart enough politically and be specialized to be active at different levels of Oromo politics:
– above all, the core of our politics is to liberate the heart of our nation – Finfinné, from Abyssinian domination and own it. For this purpose, we need politicians like Adànech Abebe, being active at this level.
– then firstly, we have to promote Oromo nationaists, who are commited to liberate and consolidate Oromia to be free from any sort of allien influence, like what Galàsà Dilbô used to strive.
– secondly, politicians like Mararà Gudina are essential for integrity and unity of Ethiopia.
– thirdly, we should be accomodative of all Oromo and non-Oromo at the level of the Horn), which is actually advocated by Léncô Latà.
– fourthly, Dr Abiy’s focus on integrating Africa, with Finfinné as its political center should be encouraged.
– fifithly, we need Oromos like Fayyis, who are concentrating on the Glob, trying to see ourselves as world citizen and contributing our part. After all, the whole nations of the Globe are children of Hadam and Hawan (Adam and Eve), who are said to be Oromo (for the Oromo are stem of all humans).
I observed that we, Oromo nationalists. are questioning the motive and stand of Dr. Abiy regarding Oromo’s struggle for freedom. His emphasis on Ethiopia, rather than Oromia, made us to be sceptical. This is because of the fact that some Oromo nationalists have a conflict regarding which land to call “our country”. Which one is our country? Oromia (Biyya-Oromo)? Ethiopia (Biyya-Küsh)? Africa (Biyya-Kàm)? Actually, all the three are ours (Biyya-Kénya); it depends only at which level we are talking. The conflict mainly lies on claiming Ethiopia as our country. Part of Oromo nationalists vehemently reject this country as their own. In reality, Ethiopia is Tuulama’s empire, not Habesha’s empire as usually told. It was formed by an alliance of the Habeshanized Tuulama led by Emperor Menilik and the non-Habeshanized Tuulama led by General Gôbana. These two leaders were founders of the present empire and majority of their army were Oromo. We can even call it Oromian Empire and now we need to transform it to Ethipian union.
The difference between an empire and a union can be summarized as: “an empire is a dictatorial bringing together of nations by force; union is a democratic coming together of nations per free will.” Oromian independence as advocated by some nationalists can happen, either if all our neighbours reject such a union by own free will and forge their independent countries or if Oromo people decide for such independence per referendum. OPP of Dr. Abiy prefers the first approach (let other minority nations go from us for we are majority at the center) and OLF opted for the second (let our people decide either for an independence or for a union)! Anyways, Biyya-Oromo is imperatively our country, Biyya-Küsh is optionally our country and Biyya-Kàm is inevitably our continent (also country); we can call the three levels Biyya-Kénya!
We also can call Biyya-kénya (our country) in double sense, considering Africa as our continent: both Biyya-Oromo (Oromia) and Biyya-Küsh (Ethiopia) are Biyya-kénya! Either of them or both of them can be the final result of our self-determination per referendum as planned by Oromo forces including the OLF. As far as I am concerned, self-rule of Biyya-Oromo within shared rule of Biyya-Küsh is a pragmatic solution for the Oromo! The Oromo should concentrate only on consolidating the power in our mind and heart city – Finfinné. By doing this in our Finfinne, we can transform politics of the country, the region and the continent. That is why it is really not bad that Dr. Abiy encourages the Oromo to have power in Finfinné and then liberate Oromia (the Core), democratize Ethiopia, integrate the Horn) & federalize Africa. Which ever size of area is adminstered or influenced from Finfinné can be called Oromia. So, we need to have Oromo politicians, who can play our beneficial role to promote Oromian politics. I encourage Oromo politicians to contain our culture in sub-state Oromia, power in state Ethiopia and economy in supra-state Africa. This ripple influence of Oromo politics from Finfinné palace towards the whole Globe is really fascinating. May Wàqa help us comprehend this!
Galatôma!
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