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It's just like our migration basically as nomadic people.What exactly is this Oromo Migration about?
A quick Google check tells me a 16th century Tigray monk writes about this Oromo Migration in the History of the Galla. Were these Oromo raids like our Somali raids or different?It's just like our migration basically as nomadic people.What exactly is this Oromo Migration about?
I think the girl in the picture I posted is irritated because there are some parts of Ethiopia that are heavily oromo/amxaraa mixed and these places have issues with the 'who came first' argument thing. But the girl believes oromos have inhabited the places they are in now their whole time. I know that isn't correct for Harar as it has always been a somali/harari town, even dire dhabe and those parts have always been ours.
I always assumed it was similar, but I am probably wrong. I didn't use this monk as a source when trying to read up on it. I've read this https://www.jstor.org/stable/179457?seq ... b_contents 'The Origins of the Galla and Somali', I thought it was an interesting read. @AwRastaale will probably be able to give you a much better comparison than I can between us and the Oromos.A quick Google check tells me a 16th century Tigray monk writes about this Oromo Migration in the History of the Galla. Were these Oromo raids like our Somali raids or different?It's just like our migration basically as nomadic people.What exactly is this Oromo Migration about?
I think the girl in the picture I posted is irritated because there are some parts of Ethiopia that are heavily oromo/amxaraa mixed and these places have issues with the 'who came first' argument thing. But the girl believes oromos have inhabited the places they are in now their whole time. I know that isn't correct for Harar as it has always been a somali/harari town, even dire dhabe and those parts have always been ours.
HOA,
It's clear you don't even understand what you are posting. The poster never mentioned anything about the lands Oromo inhabit today except that the theory by Abba Bahrey is mythical legend like that one of Harry Porters.
Do you not agree?
In addiition to that he only says Oromo are part of the Cushitic family and have walked the land long before the Habesha.
Do you not agree?
So what is your argument really in respect to what Mr Saleh has posted on Twitter?
Also looks like you don't understand the Oromo and that region well.
Raaya is not a region but an Oromo sub-tribe who live in Wollo along with their Yejju brothers. So there is nothing called "Wello and Raya".
Raaya are in Wollo.
And no it's not conquered land in respect to what Saleh is saying which is about the subject of who arrived first. Oromo and the Cushitics have always lived as far north as Tigray (Axum). Axum was an empire by the Agews and even later established the Zagwe dynasty, which by the way practiced many aspects of the Gadaa system. Agews were no strangers to Oromo neither were Habesha's earliest fathers including this Priest. Just looking at his name says it all "Abba Bahrey". Abbaa is Oromo word for father and they use it as a title eg Abba Nefso, Abba Jaffar, etc. In Oromo culture there is the Abbaa and the ilma (son). These are Gadaa principles of titles, social hierarchy, and so forth. For him to be Abba Bahrey tells us he had direct contacts with Oromo and may have even grew up amongst them to earn such title.
In Gadaa system you have several groups led by certain titles and each title is given to particular family. That family has a hierarchy which also maintains their lineage. In such the father(s) is/are always at the top while the first eldest son awaits his turn. This is where "Abbaa" and "ilma" come handy for example Abbaa Ja'an Galaan (the father of the six branches of Galaan), Abbaa Shanan Jiddaa (Father of the five branches of Jidaa), etc. Then you have Abbaa Gadaa, Abbaa Bokku, and each clan has their own father...each division of Gadaa has its own father or particular family.
So to conquer a land means another race must be uprooted. Who did the Oromo uproot? The Habesha want to play victim yet till us that they arrived from Israel with a Cross and Geez language yet want to play natives. That doesn't make sense.
If anything Oromo conquered the Agews and that's like one brother taking the bigger bedroom from the other------these things always went back and forth. There were times the Agews had the upper hands and chased Oromo sending them south and later Oromo re-conquered the lands their ancestors once walked.
In the later Oromo expansion, that's no different than Somali, Afar, Beja or Agew one.
Everyone expanded at one point in history but what the topic from Twitter discusses is the first arriver to the Horn and Oromo has lived the land before Habesha.
So no it's not a conquest if anything a restoration of their ancestral lands (Cushitic land).
You contradict yourself by laughing at purported 'Oromo migration'. Migration from where? Madagascar?
The within Horn migration is one all sons of Cushitic have under taken.
Which oromo clans neighbour the Somali people?
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