The ‘Nine Lives’ of Oromo Literacy: Qubee and the Birth of a Generation
Part I By Mekuria Bulcha, Professor The qubee [the Oromo alphabet], in providing an instrumental means to modern communication, has itself become highly symbolic of the legitimacy and authority of Oromo in the modern learning environment. Juxtaposed with the odaa tree [it], is a resonant symbol of the Oromo polity asserting the unity of all…