this is the same British guy who arranged for menelik to get guns from the british empire by the way:
Major William Harris, a British diplomat/figure, had this to say about the Oromos:
''But whatever may be the origin of the heathen invaders, it is certain that, as a martial people, they have greatly degenerated from their ancestors. United under one head, they overran the fairest provinces of Ethiopia; and had they remained united, they might, with equal ease, have completed the conquest of the greater portion of the African continent. Relaxing, however, in their common cause against the Christians, the tribes soon began to contest among each other for the possession of the newly acquired territory. Intestine feuds and dissensions neutralized their giant power; and the weakness and disorganization by which the majority are now characterized, is to be ascribed to the fact of there being no king in Israel.''
[The Highlands of Æthiopia, Volume 3, pages 45-46]
