⸻ Book Summary **The Karayyuu within Oromo History: Genealogy, Seniority, and Gadaa Jurisprudence in Central-Eastern Oromia** ⸻ Overview and Intellectual Scope This book presents a comprehensive historical and jurisprudential study of the Karayyuu Oromo, situating them firmly within the broader historical, legal, and political traditions of the Oromo Nation. It advances the central argument that genealogy (gosaa fi balbala) among the Karayyuu functions not merely as a record of descent but as a

Professor Asmarom Legesse was a truly great intellectual and an extraordinary scholar. I first learned about him more than twenty years ago, in the early 2000s, GC through my uncle, who explained who Professor Asmarom was and how significant his contributions were to the Oromo people and to humanity at large. From that time on, I came to understand and deeply respect his lifelong dedication to researching, preserving, and presenting the Oromo Gadaa system and indigenous knowledge to the world. T

History of the Rayya Oromo Those in northern Ethiopia who used to write history mainly tried to erase Oromo history and deny the Oromo their indigeneity, rather than focusing on historical truth. Beyond distorting and destroying Oromo history, they even took some Oromo groups and completely portrayed them as if they were not Oromo, attempting to relocate them into other identities. Among the Oromo who suffered from such historical distortion are the Yajju and the Rayya. Regarding the Yajju Oromo

What OMC’s Data Reveals: The World Had Not Been Shown the Oromo Nation The recent performance of Oromia-My Country (OMC)—over 3 million global views in 90 days, with individual posts reaching 160,000 views organically—reveals a striking reality: the Oromo nation was largely unknown to the world before OMC. This invisibility was not caused by a lack of civilization, culture, or history. The Oromo are one of Africa’s largest Indigenous nations, with a sophisticated democratic system (Gadaa), an et