Conquest, Tyranny, and Ethnocide against the Oromo: A Historical Assessment of Human Rights Conditions in Ethiopia, ca. 1880s–2002

Hassen, Mohammed

doi:10.1353/nas.2007.0013

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“…The urban elites who are the majority in the city oppose ethnic Oromo special interests in the city support the officials. The Oromo peasants, nationalists, and activists interpreted the situation part of ongoing discrimination against ethnic Oromo and evicting peasants due to Addis Ababa"s expansion echoes the center-periphery power relationship that developed during the nineteenth-century imperial expansion and incorporation of Oromoland into Ethiopian Empire (Hassen, 2002;Ta"a, 2006). This political competition among Oromo nationalists and Amhara-Tigray elites has been framing the politics of Addis Ababa and its surroundings at least during the last thirty years but the situation of the Oromo peasants gets worse as the day goes on.…”

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They deceived us: Narratives of Addis Ababa development-induced displaced peasants

Wayessa¹

2020

Int. J. Sociol. Anthropol.

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This paper explores the impacts of the fast spatial expansion of Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, on the suburb small-scale farming community. Recently, combined with rapid population growth and booming economy, the city experienced a rapid physical expansion without proper urban planning. The sprawl of the city has dislocated small-scale farming communities in the suburbs and led to one of the major deadly popular protests against land dispossession in the modern history of the country. The physical expansion to surrounding farmlands has threatened the socioeconomic life of farming communities surrounding the city through dislocation, resource dispositioning, and why the situation has received ethnic dimension. This study highlights that in addition to the natural urban growth, corruption in the government and the use of land for political leverages have played a significant role in the forced eviction of peasants.

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They deceived us: Narratives of Addis Ababa development-induced displaced peasants

Wayessa¹

2020

Int. J. Sociol. Anthropol.

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“…Prior to the mid-nineteenth century in what is now central and southern Ethiopia, there existed several pastoralist societies including the Oromo (Hassen 1990(Hassen , 2015. As the scholars Hassen (2002) and Jalata (2005) note, starting in the 1870s, under the rule of Yohannes IV, the Emperor of Ethiopia, Oromo people and land began to be colonized as part of Ethiopia's state formation. Ethiopia's formation as a modern nation-state was later finalized in the late 1880s by Emperor Menelik II.…”

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I’m Not Habesha, I’m Oromo: Immigration, Ethnic Identity, and the Transnationality of Blackness

Guluma

2023

Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

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Sociological research on immigration and Blackness has often focused on how immigrants from majority-Black sending countries negotiate between their racial and ethno-national identities. But as the Black immigrant population continues to grow, so too does the salience of subnational ethnic diversity. This begs the question: how do immigrants negotiate between their various racial and ethnic identity options as they integrate into American society? To tackle this question, I draw on 30 in-depth, semi-structured interviews with first- and second-generation Oromo immigrants to see how they situate their ethnic and racial identities in the context of integration into American society and continued homeland ethnic conflict. Two themes emerge in how my respondents articulate their ethnic and racial identities. First, respondents draw a sharp distinction between Oromo and Ethiopian as both separate national and ethnic identities. Second, respondents embrace their Black identity in part by relying on narratives of Blackness rooted in a shared history of anti-Black oppression that draw on the language of linked fate. Together, these findings demonstrate how Black immigrants’ identity can inform and be informed by notions of Blackness in both the United States and homeland contexts, and the importance of attending to subnational ethnic diversity in studies of immigration.

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“…The rise of the Abyssinian Empire in the late 1890s simultaneously brought systematic attempts to destroy each of these cultural institutions. Under the rule of Haile Selassie, the Oromo language and religious practices were banned, and land was seized for and by the state and Orthodox Christian church (Bulcha 1997; Hassen 2002).…”

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Hiriira Spatiotemporalities: Mapping Oromo Women’s Liberation in Post‐Imperial Berlin

Bass

2022

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In September 2020, Oromo women marched through the streets of Berlin, Germany, demanding recognition for their struggle. This protest march, called a Hiriira in the Oromo language, offers a case study into the entanglements between settler colonial Ethiopia, Germany’s post‐empire, and the forces of oppression which link them. This paper uses the spatiotemporal reckonings generated from the Hiriira perspective to understand violence and elucidate the practices of resistance that have emerged despite it. These contrasting ways of viewing space and time are expressed through the tension between imperial spatialising, a way of knowing the world that is imperial and oppressive in nature, and geography guraacha, a Black and Blackened way of knowing space with a particularly Oromo perspective. The result is a type of mapping, tracing the Hiriira route across Berlin while describing the histories that shadow these streets, and the pathways towards liberation that Oromo women are organising.

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Conquest, Tyranny, and Ethnocide against the Oromo: A Historical Assessment of Human Rights Conditions in Ethiopia, ca. 1880s–2002

Cited by 12 publications

References 16 publications

They deceived us: Narratives of Addis Ababa development-induced displaced peasants

They deceived us: Narratives of Addis Ababa development-induced displaced peasants

I’m Not Habesha, I’m Oromo: Immigration, Ethnic Identity, and the Transnationality of Blackness

Hiriira Spatiotemporalities: Mapping Oromo Women’s Liberation in Post‐Imperial Berlin

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