So we have all had many conversations. Thank you all for indulging me in sharing my recent research. Here are a couple of links to give us some visuals for thinking about Oromo culture and life. (Wonder who will show up on the blog for this! P.S. All are welcome!)
Music is big!!
I'm divided on this, but about women's rights.
A wedding and a Very famous singer
Some history--some I have given you
There is much more to look at--take a peak yourself!
Some other links if you are interested:
Oromo Studies Association
Oromia Online
SSOOO interested in your thoughts on this site!!
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seems some of the links don't work--i'll check it out
hopefully links are fixed--let me know if they aren't
Great info, Prof. "lorraine"!
http://www.ayyaantuu.com/Oromiyaa/NewsBlog/tabid/36/EntryID/706/Default.aspx
I found this link to be VERY
interesting and am still processing some of it. Quick quotes:
Ebissa Ragassa writes:
"We must recognize that Ethiopia is just an idea that exists in our mind...Ethiopia is thought that can be altered to transcend us, elastic enough to stretch us."
Does this mean that the future of 'the nation' also lies in the ability to imagine?
Anderson writes, "Communities are to be distinguished, not by their falsity/genuineness, but by the style in which they are imagined."
Interestingly enough Ragassa also mentions the binary utilized to imagine and distinguish a nation's realness:
"...Ethiopia’s progresses are measured by degree of her citizens to discriminate between myth and reality, fact from opinion, symptom from cause and information from propaganda."
Unlike Anderson's rejection of the nation as a "fabrication" or "falsity" (Gellner) but rather something actively created, Ragassa's utilization of a "veil of appearance" implies that there is a "true" Ethiopia to be uncovered.
Perhaps a visit of Gellner is in order. Or maybe just this info on nationalism
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