The Oromo, Who Fostered Ethiopia, Shall Transform It into Oropia!
By Fayyis Oromia*
There is no question that the Ethiopian empire was forged by two faces of the Tulama Oromo: the Habeshanized faction led by King Menelik and the non-Habeshanized faction led by General Gobana. The alliance between these two groups played a crucial role in driving the war of empire-building at the end of the nineteenth century.
After nearly a century of rule, the empire was taken over by the Habeshanized Agaw elite in 1991. Today, the struggle is not to retake the empire and maintain it as it is, but rather to transform it—either into a union that may still be called Ethiopia or to rename and reshape it as Oropia, an Oromic-led country. If transformation fails, there is little doubt that the empire will disintegrate and independent nation-states will emerge—among them, an independent state of Oromia.
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