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Traces the cultural and political history of the Oromo, their colonisation and incorporation into teh modern state of Ethiopia and their long struggle for self-determination and democracy. Focusing on the development of class and nation-class contradictions manifested in the continuing crisis of the Ethiopian state, Jalata examines why the reorganisation of the state in the '70s and '90s failed to change the nature of Ethiopian colonialism.
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TRACING THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE OROMO AND THEIR INCORPORATION INTO MODERN ETHIOPIA A challenge to the assumption that the colonisation of an ethnic group inevitably results in assimilation and loss of ethnonational identity. This original work traces the cultural and political history of the Oromo, their colonisation and incorporation into the modern state of Ethiopia and the racialised/ethnicised capitalist world system. It details the Oromo's long struggle for self-determination and democracy, illustrating in the process the way in which their opposition to state terrorism, genocide and gross human rights violations from the Tigrayan-led Ethiopian government has increased Oromian commitment to determine their destiny as a nation. Focusing on the development of the class and nation-class contradictions manifested in the continuing crisis of the Ethiopian state, Jalata examines why the reorganisation of that state in the 1970s and again in the 1990s failed to change the nature of Ethiopian colonialism.
He challenges the assumptions of many modernisation and mainstream Marxist theories that colonised peoples like the Oromo would disappear through assimilation: to the contrary, the Oromo case serves as an apt demonstration that colonialism and imperialism have not been successful in destroying the cultural identity of colonised people, nor their desire for self-determination and democracy."About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.
- PublisherTHE RED SEA PRESS
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1569022461
- ISBN 13 9781569022467
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages306
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