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The Borana Oromo of southern Ethiopia in the Horn of Africa also have a class system, where the Watta, an acculturated Bantu group, represent the poorest class.
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Borana and Oromo
The Borana Oromo, also called the Boran, are a pastoralist group living in southern Ethiopia ( Oromia ) and northern Kenya.
*** The Guji Oromo, who are inhabiting the southern part of Oromia, neighboring the Borana Guttuu and the Sidama People.
* The Borana Oromo, also known as Boraan Guttuu, who live in the Borena Zone, which includes Moyale.
It is a sociolinguistic language, consisting of four varieties: Borana – Arsi – Guji Oromo, Eastern Oromo ( also called Qottu ), Orma, and West Central Oromo.
In Kenya, the Ethnologue also lists 322, 000 speakers of Borana and Orma, two languages closely related to Ethiopian Oromo.
Within Kenya there has been radio broadcasting in Oromo ( in the Borana dialect ) on the Voice of Kenya since at least the 1980s.
The previous indigenous Turkana name for Lake Turkana was Anam a Cheper. The area still sees few visitors, being a two-day drive from Nairobi. The lake is also an imaginary boundary of the Rendille and Borana and Oromo to the Turkana land. The area is primarily clay based and there is more alkaline in the sea water.
Other groups reported in Moyale include the Borana Oromo and the Garre Somali.
The Borana Oromo, also called the Boran, are a pastoralist ethnic group living in southern Ethiopia ( Oromia ) and northern Kenya.
Borana and Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, the protected areas include Alledeghi Wildlife Reserve, Yabelo Wildlife Sanctuary, Borana Controlled Hunting Area and Chalbi Sanctuary.
Following the liberation of Ethiopia from Italy in 1942, the provinces of Borana and Welayta, created from conquered states of that name, were merged into Sidamo.
Borana and also
: Borana is also an alternate Spanish name of the Boran sub-family of the larger Witotoan language family.
Borana and have
Mostly, these groups have lived in peace, but starting in 1994 and lasting for almost a year, there were ethnic killings of Gabra by Borana, following a dispute over clan ownership of cattle — which are the main source of income for both groups, in addition to trade in goods and foodstuffs.
Borana and system
The Borana calendar is a lunar-stellar calendrical system, relying on astronomical observations of the moon in conjunction with seven particular stars or constellations.
Borana and .
The other being the Borana.
The Turkana people of the north, the Bajuni, Akamba, Borana, Chuka, Gusii, Kikuyu, Luhya and Luo, the Maasai and the related Samburu and the Mijikenda (" nine tribes ") of the eastern coast are all found within the borders of Kenya.
The Borana Bible in Kenya was printed in 1995 using the Latin alphabet, but not using the same spelling rules as in Ethiopian Qubee.
Following repeated attacks from the Balana call them Borana or Galla and unfavourable weather conditions, and it was resolved to migrate south and east, to unsettled lands.
They dispersed and settled among the Kipsigis, the Nandi, the Samburu, the Marakwet, the Borana and even beyond.
Moyale saw four days of ethnic clashes in July 2012 over a long-standing land dispute between Borana and Garri communities, exacerbated by drought conditions.
The town is inhabited by the Nilotic Samburu and Turkana, as well as the Cushitic-speaking Gabbra, Burji, Borana and Rendille.
Marsabit is the announced location for a conference between Borana and Gabra elders scheduled for 2-6 June 2009.
Oromo and southern
* Most of the southern half of the boundary with Somalia is a Provisional Administrative Line, not an international boundary, which is ignored by rival clans within Ethiopia's Ogaden and southern Somalia's Oromo region
Many historians agree that some Oromo clans ( Bale ) have lived in the southern tip of present-day Ethiopia for over a millennium.
* The Walloo Oromo, who are the northernmost group, and live predominantly in the Oromia Zone of the Amhara Region, as far north as Lake Ashenge, and are also found in the southern Raya Azebo woreda in the Tigray Region.
Historically, some people among the northern Amhara community used the label " Galla " derogatorily to label Oromos as well as to label Shewan or southern Amharas who were mostly mixed with Oromo.
It is a major crop, although often supplemented with cereal crops, amongst the following people indigenous to southern Ethiopia: the Aari, Basketo, Dime, Dizi, Gamo, Gedeo, Gimira, Goffa, Gurage, Hadiya, Kafficho, Kambaata, Konta, Kullo, Maji, Mao, some Oromo groups, Sheko, Sidama, Welayta, Yem, Uba and the Zala.
The main ethnicities of the region are the Nuer ( 46. 65 %), the Anuak ( 21. 17 %), Amhara ( 8. 42 %), Kafficho ( 5 %), Oromo ( 4. 83 %), Kambaata ( 1. 44 %), Mezhenger ( 4 %), Shakacho ( 2. 27 %), Tigrean ( 1. 32 %) and other ethnic groups predominantly from southern Ethiopia 4. 9 %.
Thus he centered his interest on the Oromo, in his time known as the Galla, people of southern Ethiopia who then were largely traditional believers.
Gadaa ( in older spelling: Gada ) is the traditional social stratification system of Oromo males in Ethiopia and northern Kenya ; it is also practiced by the Gedeo people of southern Ethiopia.
Oromo and Ethiopia
The most populous Cushitic language is Oromo with about 35 million speakers, followed by Somali with about 18 million speakers, and Sidamo in Ethiopia with about 2 million speakers.
In July 1991, the TPLF, the Oromo Liberation Front ( OLF ), and others – established the Transitional Government of Ethiopia ( TGE ), which consisted of an 87-member Council of Representatives and guided by a national charter that functioned as a transitional constitution.
Comfort Momoh, a specialist midwife in England, writes that in Ethiopia the Falashas perform it when the child is a few days old, the Amhara on the eighth day of birth, while the Adere and Oromo choose between four years and puberty.
* 1608 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia surprises an Oromo army at Ebenat ; his army reportedly kills 12, 000 Oromo at the cost of 400 men.
The Oromo (, " The Powerful ";, ’ Oromo ) are an ethnic group found in Ethiopia, northern Kenya, and parts of Somalia.
With 30 million members, they constitute the single largest ethnicity in Ethiopia and approximately 34. 49 % of the population according to the 2007 census .< ref name =" census2007p66 "> Their native language is Oromo ( also called Afaan Oromoo and Oromiffa ), which is part of the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family.
They suggest that a great Oromo migration brought most Oromos to present-day central and western Ethiopia in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Historical maps of the ancient Aksum / Abyssinian Empire and Adal / Somali empires indicate that Oromo people are newcomers to most of modern-day central Ethiopia.
Oromo ruler Iyasu V of Ethiopia | Iyasu V ( Lij Iyasu ), Emperor of Ethiopia from 1913 – 16.
In the general view of Oromo people's role in Ethiopia, Ras Gobana Dacche is a famous Oromo figure who led the development of modern Ethiopia and the political and miliatary incorporation of more territories into Ethiopian borders.
Some Oromo writers believe that the Oromo Ras Gobena and the Amhara Menelik II were the first two people in Ethiopia with the concept of national boundary that brought various different ethno-linguistic communities under a politically and militarily centralized rule.
" In terms of descent, the group that became politically dominant in Shewa – and Subsequently in Ethiopia – was a mixture of Amhara and Oromo ; in terms of language, religion and cultural practices, it was Amhara.
Both ethnically mixed Oromos and those with full Oromo descent held high leadership positions in Ethiopia.
During the Zemene Mesafint or " Age of Princes " of Ethiopia, Emperors became figureheads, controlled by warlords like Ras Mikael Sehul of Tigray, and by the Oromo Yejju dynasty, which later led to 17th century Oromo rule of Gondar, changing the language of the court from Amharic to Afaan Oromo.
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