The Oromo Migrations, Abba Bahrey’s Witness, and the...

By Eshetu Mekonnen The Oromo migrations of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries are among the most consequential population movements in the Horn of Africa. They reshaped the demographic, political, and cultural map of Ethiopia so thoroughly that many of the peoples who once inhabited the central and southern highlands either disappeared, became fragmented, or were absorbed into the expanding Oromo identity. To understand these transformations, especially from the perspective of […]