Feeling very fortunate to be spending time in the archives of the #Oromo Center in Berlin reading more about the history of the #OromoStruggle

Some vintage copies of the Oromo Liberation Front ( #OLF) publication, Oromia Speaks

Oromtitti, the magazine of the Union of Oromo Women in Europe

More #OLF publications from the 1970s

An #OLF update from 1983 including the political objectives

I will probably continue this #thread as I dig deeper. They have poetry, photos of the public education programs, & a decent collection of #EPLF & Eritrean history. This is a freedom fight that’s been going on since before the Afro era.

Union of Oromos in Europe, Sagalee Oromo 1988

Madda Aadaa 1983, featuring a #qeerro poem

This Women’s Study Group was very pro-EPRP... but included some great photos of women in the struggle

The very mournful cover of Gadaa Melbaa’s Oromia, published in Finfinnee in 1980

“They met in a Finfinne in 1962, where are they now?”

STORM: Somali Tigray & Oromo Resistance Monitor 1982

“Gargaarsa Dura” -OLF 1981

Some of the #OLF early literacy materials

Dutch students getting in on the Oromo liberation action of the 80s

I can’t read Amharic, but I believe this was put out around the time of the first elections/ Transitional Government of Ethiopia era

“Ambarru and her sister spent several nights in the forest, hungry and frightened, until they were found by an OLF unit operating in the area” - report from Oromo refugees in Sudan, Kara Walabumma 1988