Contending nationalisms of Oromia and Ethiopia
Subtitle: struggling for statehood, sovereignty, and multinational democracy
By: Asafa Jalata.
Publisher: Global Academic Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Binghamton, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781586842819
Subjects: Oromo (African people) -- Politics and government; Oromo (African people) -- Government relations; Nationalism -- Ethiopia; Ethiopia -- Ethnic relations; Oromiyā kelel (Ethiopia) -- History -- Autonomy and independence movements
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethnonationalism and the global "modernizing" project 5; title: Ethiopianism as oppressor nationalism; title: the Amhara-Tigray state and oppressor nationalism : external legitimacy, authoritarianism, and state terrorism; title: Oromia : the problems of colonial institutions, garrison cities, and urban centers; title: Ethiopia on the fire of competing nationalisms : the Oromo People's Movement, the state, and the West; title: Struggling for social justice and self-determination in the capitalist world system : the cases of African Americans, Oromos, and southern and western Sudanese; title: Oromo national political leadership : assessing the past and mapping the future; title: Foundations of a state in Oromia : applying Gadaa principles in the twenty-first century.