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Posted: **27 Dec 2020, 07:40**

Most Oromo politicains are not seen taking part in multi-ethnic group organisations such as EDP or EPRP. They are either Oromo Liberation Front sympathizers or members. The so-called Oromo Democratic Congress stands for Oromos. There is also another Oromo Federalist Congress, which is for federalist Ethiopia. There is no Oromo group organised to stand for Ethiopia as a whole.

The Oromo have backward traditions. The Gadda system is a primitive form of social organisation that is similar to communities in the Congo basin. Head of the Gadda is called Luba, which originates from Luba Kingdom in Congo. Luba means King of the Luba Kingdom in The Congo.The Oromo do not know themselves what Luba means but call the heads of the Oromo ruling over 8 hours a Luba.

It is clear the Oromo originated from Southern Africa. This is OK as long as they abide by the new norms in the host country of Ethiopia. In reality, the Oromos see Ethiopai as their country and try to categorize non-Oromo Ethiopians as immigrants. This has created conflict. The Amhara seem to be the direct victims. Oromos occupy vast areas of land that was under Amhara. The Amhara were displaced from Bale and Wellega regions in South Ethiopia.

We need to support the Amhara population to get their lands back. The Oromo should be given the chance to integrate with Amhara and other communities in Ethiopia. But such claims that Addis Ababa, Nazreth, Dessie, Wollo, Shoa etc are part of Oromo should not be accepted.

Posted: **27 Dec 2020, 08:09**

The Luba people or Baluba are an ethno-linguistic group indigenous to the south-central region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Majority of them live in this country, residing mainly in its Katanga, Kasai, and Maniema provinces. The Baluba consist of many sub-groups who speak various dialects of Luba (e.g. Luba-Kasai, Luba-Katanga) or other languages, such as Swahili.

The Baluba developed a society and culture by about the 400s CE, later developing a well-organised community in the Upemba Depression known as the Baluba confederation

The traditional religious beliefs of the Luba people included the concept of a Shakapanga or a Universal Creator, a Leza or the Supreme Being, a natural world and a supernatural world. The supernatural world was where Bankambo (ancestral spirits) and Bavidye (other spirits) lived, and what one joined the afterlife if one lived an Mwikadilo Muyampe (ethical life). The Luba religions accepts the possibility of communion between the living and the dead.

Luba, also called Baluba, a Bantu-speaking cluster of peoples who inhabit a wide area extending throughout much of south-central Democratic Republic of the Congo. They numbered about 5,594,000 in the late 20th century. The name Luba applies to a variety of peoples who, though of different origins, speak closely related languages, exhibit many common cultural traits, and share a common political history with past members of the Luba empire, which flourished from approximately the late 15th through the late 19th century. (See Luba-Lunda states.)

Posted: **27 Dec 2020, 08:24**

Under Gadaa, every eight years, the Oromo would choose by consensus nine leaders known as Salgan ya’ii Borana (the nine Borana assemblies).[A leader elected by the gadaa system remains in power only for 8 years, with an election taking place at the end of those 8 years.
Luba is the Gadaa grade in which the society was structured into the peer group based on chronological age or genealogical generation. Each luba consists of all of the sons in another particular class. The entire grade progresses through eleven different grades, each based on an eight-year cycle, and each with its own set of rights and responsibilities

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The problem in Ethiopia are the Bantu immigrant population of Galla or Oromo!

The problem in Ethiopia are the Bantu immigrant population of Galla or Oromo!

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