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[Wedi]

Oromo history in one Paragaraph: "Saglan borana, sagaltama garba"

In the course of their expansion between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries and also later, to a less spectacular extent they assimilated many alien groups, thus continuously enlarging their ethnic body. Until recently most of the Oromo groups were characterized by an internal dualism which found its expression in their social organization and in certain realities of everyday life. The clans (gossa) of the Oromo proper (borana) were usually outnumbered by those of the assimilated (mogasa or garba) with limited political rights and cultural peculiarities, such as, for instance, Islamic survivals. The popular saying: Saglan borana, sagaltama garba ("Nine are the Oromo proper and ninety are the assimilated.") shows that the Oromo were clearly aware of this phenomenon. The success of their great migration and conquest can to a large extent be explained by the expansionist ideology inherent in their age-grade system (gada).

[DefendTheTruth]

This is a b*llshit claim from the naming or nomenclature itself.

Garba and Gabar are two distinctly different ideas or entities.

It is also not called Borana and Garba, rather Borana (Oromo) and Gabaro (I think to have been drived from the word gabar, one who pays to someone else).

Garba is owned by someone else, while Gabaro is free, so can't be equated.

One knows how b*llshit one's claim is and leaves out the source of the "information", puposely.

[Wedi]

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Are you borana or garba?
I'm 100% sure that you are garba.

[Sadacha Macca]

Yet all you can do, wedi aka Tarik aka judgementday1234 aka tog wajale, is cry online about the powerful Oromo nation. Cry about the conquests our warrior ancestors did over a century ago. Hilarious indeed.