In Memoriam for the great Oromo artist, Haacaaluu Hundeessaa, assassinated on June 30, 2020. Oromo music has played a central role in providing alternative spaces for enunciating ‘the Oromo question’.

Far from being a footnote in the Oromo struggle, musicians like Haacaaluu Hundeessa have been its centre of gravity. With the appointment of Abiy Ahmed as chair of the ruling coalition, Ethiopia is ...

"Everyday I walk in this city, I know I walk alongside death," singer Hachalu Hundessa said just days before he was shot dead in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa on 28 June. We hear how the 34-year ...

It was just a little past noon local time on a cold and breezy day in Minnesota when I met Kadir Said. Said, a legendary Oromo folk singer, arrived here eight days earlier. After fifteen years in ...

'He is our icon. He is a father figure,' says a protest leader in St. Paul Two hundred protesters from Minnesota's Oromo community gathered at the State Capitol Tuesday to protest the killing of ...

As protests in Ethiopia over the rights of the country's Oromo people continue, Addis Ababa-based journalist James Jeffrey considers if they are threatening the country's unity. The latest round of ...

Officials have acknowledged that more than 170 people were killed during the protests Ethiopian security forces killed more than 400 people in the recent wave of anti-government demonstrations, ...

With the appointment of Abiy Ahmed as chair of the ruling coalition, Ethiopia is set to have an Oromo leader for the first time in recent history. This is in no small part thanks to brave and ...