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The state of Georgia is home to more than 2000 Oromos. The first Oromos started arriving in the state of Georgia in the early 1980’s. The majority of them came to escape political, economic and cultural persecution by the successive Ethiopian regimes.

 

THE “OROMO” IN BRIEF

Population

Language

Culture

Religion

The Land

History

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History:

Prior to colonization:

Prior to its colonization, the Oromo people lived under a remarkable and relatively complex age-grade based indigenous democratic system known as a "Gada" in which political, military and other leaders including legal experts are elected for non-renewable eight-year terms.

The Colonization and Resistance

The Oromo were colonized during the last quarter of the 19th century by Abyssinia with the help of the European colonial powers of the day. The colonization process that brought about the present geographical shape of Ethiopia took the Abyssinians nearly 40 years. Present day Ethiopia is an outcome of the scramble for Africa conspired in 1884/85 in Berlin.
 

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