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8/21/2008 6:52 AM 
THE PLACE OF THE OROMO DIASPORA IN THE OROMO NATIONAL MOVEMENT:
Lessons from the Agency of the “Old” African Diaspora in the United States
Asafa Jalata
The University of Tennessee - Knoxville
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Just as European and African slave traders merchandised Africans and created the old African diaspora, successive colonial and authoritarian regimes2 of Ethiopia forced some Oromos out of their homeland, Oromia, and caused them to settle in the West. The displaced Oromos entered the United States as one of the “new” African diaspora groups four centuries after the old African diaspora began to be created. In the process, the Oromo diaspora emerged on the world stage. Whereas the old African diaspora lived under racial slavery and segregation for almost three centuries, the new African diaspora communities such as the Oromo came to enjoy a measure of freedom in the land of their refuge, primarily owing to the new conditions created by the struggle and sacrifice of the old diaspora. Elements of the Oromo diaspora who, Click here to download the whole document ......
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