ART 112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Oromo Language, Dire Dawa, Body Art
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The oromo population resides primarily in ethiopia but also in somalia, kenya, and abroad. Within ethiopia, they number close to thirty million people or forty percent of the population. Oromo in ethiopia recognize their nation as oromia, extending 600,000 square kilometers. Arabic and hausa, the oromo language, afaan oromo, is the most extensively spoken language on the african continent. While the oromo constitute the ethnic majority within. Ethiopia, they have historically been marginalized politically, economically, and socially within the ethiopian state. In 1998, when i first visited harar, a town in eastern ethiopia, i was traveling with a young. Wherever we ventured in and around the old walled city, people stopped dead in their tracks and stared. Not at me, per se, although my light skin and hair color certainly attract attention, but at my traveling companion. Her headscarf indicated her faith in the devoutly islamic region of.
