An Open Letter to the Caffee Oromia: This is a plea wrapped in pain and principle. As the Oromo people endure loss, disillusionment, and unanswered sacrifices, the silence of their elected house grows louder. This letter calls on Caffee Oromia to rise — not just as an institution, but as a conscience.
When maize becomes a threat and feeding your people a crime, governance has failed not only in courage—but in conscience. The senseless maize ban just imposed across Oromia’s Rift Valley belt is yet another tragic episode of hapless leadership—one that shuns dialogue in favor of desperate, random firefighting, even if it means starving its own population in the months ahead.
An Essay by Invitation Excerpt The rise of the Amorelite — a corrupt, conscience-free elite class — is not just a sign of decay in Ethiopia and Oromia; it is the disease itself. This essay names and frames the unspoken social affliction eating away at power, ethics, and humanity. Read it. Name it. Confront it….
Excerpt: When intellectualism aligns with power instead of truth, it risks becoming a refined tool of domination. This reflection challenges the legacy of Ethiopian academia and calls for a return to ethical, justice-driven scholarship. Introduction Throughout history, intellectuals have often served as society’s conscience—interpreters of truth, critics of power, and illuminators of the human condition….
Excerpt This article unveils the Chilling Assimilation Blueprint of 1933 for the Oromo people, a calculatedly policy framework of Haile Selassie’s regime. Drawing from historical documents and translated accounts, it exposes how forced identity erasure was justified in the name of “national unity”. Far from being a relic of the past, the blueprint reveals patterns…
A Cyber Essay on Honoring a Civilization Rooted in Equality, Rising in Unity, and Ready for the Future. We shall stand for Oromo and Oromia—unapologetically, unashamedly, and unbreakably. Just as Americans revere their Flag, the French guard their Revolution, and the British preserve their Legacy, so too shall we uphold the pride, dignity, and future…
Legal Path to Further Oromo Dispossession? A draft law may hand ancestral lands to foreign tycoons. More than property is at stake—identity, culture, and future hang in the balance. #StopTheDraft #OromoLand #IndigenousRights #LegalPathToOromoDispossession The Oromo People Must Reject the Draft Property Ownership Proclamation A draft proclamation allowing foreign nationals to own immovable property in Ethiopia…
We write this letter as professionals and human beings—across diverse fields, including psychiatry, psychology, arts, human rights, history, law, medicine, sciences, conflict resolution, and public health. Though we write from a distance, our concern is intimate, our commitment sincere. We speak not just as observers of trauma but as witnesses to a national soul in…
Preview: A Revolutionary Spirit in Question Once the fearless voice of Oromo freedom, now sounding like a Prosperity Party (PP) loyalist? Jawar Mohammed’s latest interview on Kush Media Network (KMN) left many shocked — and some wondering: Has the revolutionary spirit faded, or is there a bigger game at play? Read below the full reflection…
Prefer listening? Play the audio of full article. The Tranquil Indigenous People Before colonization and forced annexation, indigenous peoples thrived across the globe — civilizations, cultures, and ways of life intricately woven with their environments over thousands of years. They were not waiting to be “discovered”; they were living fully, imagining, governing, trading, and sustaining…
“That is what prosperity looks like,” boasts a Prosperity Party (PP) regime loyalist in his Facebook repost, proudly sharing a photo announcing a $7.8 billion agreement between Ethiopian Airlines and the African Development Bank to build Africa’s largest airport in Abuu Seeraa, near Bishoftu town in Oromia. A gleaming model aircraft in the hands of…
INTRODUCTION The foundation of any structure—be it physical, societal, or personal—determines its strength and durability. When that foundation is built on lies, collapse becomes inevitable. Lies erode trust, which is the glue that binds relationships and communities. When trust is based on falsehoods, it begins to crack, undermining communication and cooperation. Lies also distort reality….
The sickening propaganda machine of the Prosperity Party (PP) regime has reached a new low—one that defeats description, but not scrutiny. This Easter weekend, one of the holiest in the Ethiopian calendar, the Mayor of Finfinnee (Addis Ababa) and the Prime Minister himself embarked on a public relations roadshow. The show? Distributing cooking oil—and yes,…
There are moments that sear themselves into the soul—not because of their scale, but because of the depth of their inhumanity. Ethiopia never ceases to amaze—but with inhumanity. We’ve witnessed people burned alive, skinned while breathing, severed heads paraded on spikes. And now, as if in a grim sequel to past shock treatments, we…
Questions for Troubling Rhetoric Where does freedom of speech end, and the incitement of dangerous, ethnically charged propaganda begin? At what point does public discourse shift from a right to speak one’s mind into a reckless abuse of influence—especially when the speaker holds public office in a fragile, multi-ethnic society? These are not abstract questions….
There’s something truly ironic about attempts to rewrite history—how they often stumble on the very tools they try to wield. A case in point: a laughable “13th-century map of Abyssinia” now making the rounds. A single glance at its slick, pixel-perfect typography and digitally crisp outlines is enough to raise eyebrows. We are expected to…
April the 15th This day stands etched in the Oromo conscience as a day of solemn remembrance and unwavering pride. It is a day when time slows down for Oromo communities across the globe to honor the lives of our fallen heroes — courageous men and women who gave everything in the struggle for Oromia’s…
