Postby bareento » Thu Apr 25, 2013 3:11 pm
greetings James!
The book I gave u the reference deals also with your counter theory.
Its true a theory cannot be solely based on clan names as clans might be absorbed in a nation.
Lets imagine that the Maayaas and Dobea's were none oromo clans living around Showa who r absorbed later.
But how can u explain that there r Maayaas and Dobe'as in Hararge, Boorana, Wallaggaa etc...
The only sane explanation is that at a time numerous oromo tribes had left their ancestral place and took refuge in Baalee from Abyssinian and Arab/Muslim
invasion and slave trade. Reorganized they went back to their ancestral lands in wats known as Oromo Migration.
Besides, if one closely looks at wats presented as Oromo Migration ...there r two important points.
i) Why would Oromos attack directly the then two major Powers of the region?
If their movement were due to population increase wouldnt have been easier and more cost beneficial if they attackd toward south west
where its easier at least militarly to get land?
ii) How can one explain the sudden increase of population in the then Baalee, which was subject of abject slave trade of the non muslims or non christians.
One explanations is that Oromos were pushed out from North by Abyssinians and Muslim powers.
They take refuge in large number in Baalee ....reorganized and fought back...to gain their lost lands...thats why they didnt move west wards right from the beginning.
Oromo oral tradition presents wat happened after Reorganization. In fact thats why when Abbaa Baahreh wrote his book Oromo clans were already
full fledged clans encompassing the Maayaas, the Dawaros etc....
If these people were not oromos how come they r fully oromos right at the begining of the so called mmigration.
B.
