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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
