Made in Oromia

Keessi Gaarreen Baale Lafa jiidhaa akka ta'e beeytuu laata? Bishaan Garreen Baale irraa ka'u hanga sumaaliyaafi keeniyaa Kaaba akka dhaqabu hoo? Bishaan Tulluu Diimtuu irra ka'u namoota Ganfa Afrikaa Miliyoona 30 oliif Wabii Bishaan Dhugaati ta'ee tajaajila. Ka nama dhibu garuu osoo bishaan kun achuma dachee Oromiyaa Baale jala yaa'u Xiyyeefanna dhabuu irraa kan ka'e Ummanni keenna rakkoo bishaani hamaaf saaxilamaa jira

የባሌ ተራራ በአፍሮ-አልፓይን ደጋ ላይ ባሉ ረግረጋማ ቦታዎች እና ሀይቆች ላይ ውሃ የማጠራቀም አቅም እንዳለው ያውቃሉ ?

ይህ ውሃ ከባሌ እስከ ሰሜን ኬንያ እና ሶማሊያ ባሉ እስከ 30 ሚሊዮን ማህበረሰቦች ለሚሆኑ ሰዎች የንፁ ዉሃ መጠጥ ምንጭ ሆኖ ያገለግላል :: ነገር ግን የባሌ ህዝብ እዛው በምድሩ ስር እየተምዘገዘግ ወዳ በዓድ አገር ሚፈሰዉን ዉሃ በመንግሥት ቸልትኝነትና ቱክራት በማጣት ሳቢያ ለከፍተኛ የሁዋ ችግር ተገልጧል ::

The Shrine of Sheikh Hussei a sacred Oromo site, alternatively referred to as Anajina, Karra Milki(the gate of success) or Karra Karayu (the gate of the Karayu (clan)).

Citation ISLAM, ETHNICITY, AND
CONFLICT IN ETHIOPIA
The BaleInsurgency, 1963–1970

Namni Lammii Australia Stuart Devlin jedhamu Saantima Biyyi keenna itti fayyadamtu dugdaduuba isaa ka Mataa Leencaatiin boce nama kana akka ta'e beektuu laata ? bara isaas bara 1977 ture.

#በኢትዮጵያ ሳንቲሞች ላይ የአንበሳውን ጭንቅላት የቀየሰው ማን እንደሆነ ታውቃለህ? አውስትራሊያዊው ዲዛይነር እና የብረታ ብረት ሰራተኛ ስቱዋርት ዴቭሊን በ1977 ለኢትዮጵያ የመጀመሪያ ሳንቲሞችን የነደፈ ሲሆን የአንበሳ ጭንቅላት በግልባጭ ላይ የቀረፀ ነው ::

Ayetu Baro Tumsa Intala Baaroo Tumsaa ✌️

The Bale Mountains are a volcanic plateau reaching up to 4377m high, formed by geological activity starting 38 million years ago. The Bale Mountains are a place where people still live close to the land. The mountains encourage the rains, and support livestock and agricultural production throughout the region.

PARIS, circa 1930, Postcard printed in Paris around 1930 promotes a bank in Harar, Ethiopia.

(Photo by Transcendental Graphics/Getty Images)

In the Bale Mountains, Ancient Humans Were Living the High Life

The New York Times

Scientists have discovered what is by far the oldest evidence of human occupation at extreme altitudes: a rock shelter strewn with bones, tools and hearths 11,000 feet above sea level. People lived at the site, in the mountains of Ethiopia, as long as 47,000 years ago.
The research, reported on Thursday in the journal Science, contradicts the long-held view that high elevations were the last places on Earth settled by humans.
That notion was based more on assumptions than hard evidence, it now appears. In East Africa, paleoanthropologists have long focused their attention on the Rift Valley and other archaeological sites at lower elevations.
“We were simply the first to go higher,” said Götz Ossendorf, an archaeologist at the University of Cologne in Germany and lead author of the new study.
Despite these challenges, people eventually moved uphill. Today, in Ethiopia, the Andes and Tibet, humans live year-round at high elevations. Archaeologists have assumed that these places were among the last to be settled.

But in recent years, expeditions to mountains and plateaus have turned up remarkable clues of human occupation tens of thousands of years ago. In 2018, for example, a team of researchers working on the Tibetan Plateau found stone blades and other artifacts dating back over 30,000 years.
More recently, another team discovered the 160,000-year-old jawbone of an extinct human relative, known as a Denisovan, in a high-elevation Tibetan cave.
In Africa, even more tantalizing clues have come to light. Simple stone tools have been found at high elevations in Ethiopia, and they appear to be hundreds of thousands of years old. They might have been left there by members of our species — or an earlier hominid species.
Still, it’s hard to know whether these findings mean that humans were living at these altitudes, or just making a brief sojourn.
“Any of us can walk up to high elevation and spend six weeks up there,” said Dr. Aldenderfer. “But we know we will have trouble living there permanently, especially if we’re trying to create societies up there and have children.”
To get a deeper understanding of life at high elevations, Dr. Ossendorf and his colleagues began a project in the Bale Mountains of southern Ethiopia in 2015.

They traveled over 700 miles on foot and with pack horses in search of signs of early human occupation. They visited overhanging cliffs to see if people had ever used them as shelters.

The high-altitude humans thrived as hunter-gatherers, subsisting on roasted giant mole-rats and glacier-fed streams. They crafted stone tools from a nearby outcrop of obsidian. And they occupied the rock shelter, off and on, for at least 16,000 years.
Humans have managed to settle into a huge range of habitats, from searing deserts to the Arctic tundra. But extreme altitudes pose special challenges. The weather can be brutal, and extreme altitudes don’t support lush forests or grasslands, as lower elevations do. Low levels of oxygen can be dangerous, sometimes even fatal, to humans at high elevations.
“Our hominid ancestors were born lowlanders,” said Mark Aldenderfer, an archaeologist at the University of California, Merced, who was not involved in the new study.

The archaeologists found 331 rock shelters with signs of human occupation. Almost all had been visited in recent centuries by livestock herders, making it difficult to examine the sites for truly ancient human remains.
But one rock shelter had gone undisturbed by modern herders, thanks to its low ceiling. When the scientists dug into the shelter floor, they quickly turned up hearths, animal bones and tools — evidence that people once lived there.
The tools surprised the researchers, because they were made in the distinctive style of the Middle Stone Age, which lasted from about 300,000 years ago to 28,000 years ago — far older than the researchers had expected.
“That was breathtaking,” Dr. Ossendorf recalled.
To establish the age of the site, called Fincha Habera, the team analyzed carbon from charcoal still in the hearths. It ranged from 47,000 to 31,000 years old.
The menu at Fincha Habera was dominated by one entree, the researchers found: giant mole-rats, a species that lives today only in the Bale Mountains. The residents may have smoked the animals out of their tunnels and killed them, cooking the mole-rats over fires and pulling the meat from the bones.

The Fincha Habera people made a great number of obsidian tools, but it’s not certain what they were used for. It is clear that the inhabitants didn’t bring the tools from the lowlands — the researchers traced the rock to an outcrop nearby, at an elevation of over 13,700 feet.

Fincha Habera had other attractions, it turns out. During the Ice Age, parts of the Bale Mountains were covered by glaciers that fed rivers year-round. The rivers were flanked by forests that may have been home to antelope and other game that people may have hunted.
Some researchers have viewed extreme altitudes as refuges of last resort, where people went only if the surrounding lowlands became unlivable. But at the time that people lived at Fincha Habera, the lowlands were wet and had plenty of game, said Lars Opgenoorth, an ecologist at Philipps University Marburg in Germany and a co-author of the study.
People living in Fincha Habera, he argued, were not fleeing conditions somewhere else. “They thought it was a good place to be,” he speculated.

Dr. Opgenoorth and his colleagues are planning a new expedition to Fincha Habera to dig deeper into the floor of the rock shelter. This time, they hope to find bones of the inhabitants.
“It would be really cool if they could find human remains — and it would be even cooler if they could get DNA from that,” said Emilia Huerta-Sanchez, a geneticist at Brown University in Providence, R.I.
Dr. Huerta-Sanchez and other geneticists have found that life at high altitudes can shift human evolution into high gear. People in the Andes and elsewhere have inherited genetic adaptations that keep them healthy at low levels of oxygen.

If researchers were to recover ancient DNA from human fossils at Fincha Habera, they could scan it for genetic adaptations to high altitude. Those genes may even be carried by living Ethiopians.
“I would like to believe it’s true, but we need more evidence,” said Dr. Huerta-Sanchez.
Fincha Habera probably was not the first high-elevation home that humans made. Middle Stone Age tools in Africa can be 300,000 years old. If people thrived at Fincha Habera with those tools, then forebears might have done so thousands of years earlier.
“Now we would almost expect even older findings will be made,” Dr. Ossendorf said.

This place is old. Seriously old. The Bale
Mountains are a volcanic plateau reaching up to 4377m
high, formed by geological activity starting 38 million
years ago. Glaciation after glaciation flattened this
superstructure into what is now the largest area of
afro-alpine moorland on earth.This photo shows the extremely steep southern side ofthe plateau dominated by Mount Gushuralle. Here, we spotted a majestic Crowned Eagle ascending on a thermal over a clearing. Their piercing calls send a shudder through the jungle - vervet and colobus monkeys will panic and immediately descend from trees to avoid this apex predator.

It's Dr Neville Alexander's birthday. His history begins with the story of his Ethiopian grandmother, who had been rescued from a slave ship in Yemen back in the late 1800s.
Ethiopia was involved in the slave trade and it was mostly people of the Oromo ethnic group who were vulnerable to being sold, especially children. By the 1800s Britain engaged in rescue efforts by intercepting slave ships. This is how Bisho was rescued.The children were taken to Aden and placed under the care of missionaries of the Free Church of Scotland. Some children were adopted by local families. In 1890 the remaining children were put on a ship and taken to Lovedale in Eastern Cape, South Africa.Grandma Bisho would eventually train as a teacher and become one of 2 Oromo people who qualified as teachers and taught at schools in the Eastern Cape. She would marry Frederick Scheepers and they had a daughter, Dimbiti. And Dimbiti married David Alexander. And they had Neville.When we talk about the anti apartheid armed struggle we tend to only focus our attention on MK and Poqo/APLA. But Dr Alexander, after graduating with his PhD at Tubingen returned and formed an guerilla organization, the National Liberation Front.The story of Grandma Bisho reminds a bit of the Kru people who arrived in Cape Town as migrant laborers from Liberia and Sierra Leone toward the end of slavery in the Cape. Our roots are traceable to various parts of this continent.

የወለጋዋ ጫልቱ Dheሬሳ (ዶ/ር) ከኢትዮጵያ በዶክትሬት ዲግሪ የመጀመሪያ ተመራቂ ::

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Enjoy the Natural Beauty of the Earth

Abebe Bikila's bronze bust made by Arpád Račko

KOŠICE, Slovakia

Legendary runner Bikila won in 1961

From the Košice Marathon archive

Košice Peace Marathon
Sun 8 October 1961

1961 ranks among the most memorable years in the rich history of the Košice Marathon, thanks to the participation of the Olympic champion Abebe Bikila.

Bikila is considered by many to be the best marathoner of all time but he only began training seriously at the age of 24. Despite the late start he still achieved twelve victories, two of which were in the Olympic Games.
After winning the first of them in Rome in 1960, running barefoot, the world wanted to see him in other races. In the year following his Olympic triumph, he ran in Athens, Osaka and finally in Košice, where marathon enthusiasts were dying of curiosity. He won everywhere he went and recorded his best time of the season in this small town in eastern Slovakia. This was certainly helped by strong competition from athletes from four continents that came to the race.
Bikila had trained diligently. He attacked Sergei Popov’s course record but after 25km became thwarted by the warm weather. Some 30,000 spectators were waiting at the stadium and tens of thousands of others created corridors along the city streets. The crowd ‘escorted’ 88 runners to the finish line, among them the best runner from Košice itself, Tibor Biskup, who finished 22nd.
The strict amateur rules of the time did not permit Bikila to be paid any financial reward, so he was at least pleased with the local brand running shoes he received from František “Buben” Kapcár, still living today and now 98 years old. And perhaps this champion was able be enjoy something aside from the victory that day: the warm reception and the memories, which remained in this city in the form of a bronze bust made by Arpád Račko, the celebrated artist behind another iconic work: the statue of the marathon runner.
Bikila later enjoyed his second Olympic triumph in Tokyo in 1964. He died as a result of a car accident in 1973.

Augur Buzzard in a Puddle on a saannate Plateou

The wolf
Made in Oromia

Gasara Gorje view From Wate Cimo

Sheikh Mohammed Rashad Abdulle (c. 1933 – May 25, 2013) was an Oromo scholar. He is known for developing Oromo phonology and translating the Qur'an into the Oromo language.
Sheikh Mohammed Rashad was born at Laga Arba village near the town of Gelemso, the son of Kabir Abdulle Kabir Mummaya and Amina Bakar. He learned Qur'an from his father and traveled extensively within the province of Hararghe to acquire further knowledge. His teachers included Sheikh Mohammed Rashid Bilal,Sheikh Hassan Anano, Sheikh Abdullah al-Harari and Sheikh Bakri Sapalo.

Finished a postgraduate program at Al Azhar University in Cairo, Rashad was appointed by the University as officer at their Burao branch school in northwestern Somalia in 1963. After three years of working for Al Azhar in Burao, He went to Mogadishu and started working for Front for Somali Galbeed as a communications officer and youth coordinator. He convinced Somali authorities to open a Radio Mogadishu's Afaan Oromo program.

Sophisticated Generation

ኦሮሞነት ማንም ሰዉ ፈፅሞ ሊሰብረው የማይችልበት ቦታ ላይ ደርሷል ፡፡
This kids are the leaders of Oromo youth association in N.America Now Ebany is the president of Seattle! This Photo was TAKEN 2005 IN DC.

Two young Oromo people, brought to Italy by the explorer Pietro Antonelli (1853-1901), engraving from LIllustrazione Italiana, December 16, 1883

Atété

Atété: A Tradition of Female solidarity and resistance. Atété is a beautiful institution originating in traditional Oromo people that is organised by women for resolving conflicts and protecting themselves against violence. Atété itself is an ancient ritual ceremony originally held in honour of Waaqa (God) and Ayyoo (Goddess/spirit of Fertility).

Oromo Monk from Limu Tribe of Enarea, Africa, Illustration, 1885. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images).

Made in Oromia

Live from my mom kitchen ❤




Visit Oromia

AJURAN TRIBE
A view of Ajuran tribe, a warlike tribe of the Borana region of Oromia. Circa 1930.(Photo by Jack Benton/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

Only in oromia
Yoo si wajjiin jiraadhe bosona keessaa mitii gammoojii Sahaara keessaas nyaataaf dhugaati malee si wajjiin jiraachuuf qophiidha😍

Made in Oromia

This is a traditional Oromo milk Container. While trekking in the Bale Mountains, our milk was served in beautiful handmade containers like this. The fresh milk smelled like mountain herbs and the coffee was excellent as well. Did you know that Oromia is the birthplace of coffee?

Made in Oromia

The Harenna Forest, Oromia lies at an
elevatian af 2,380 metres and is home to Bale Mountain Ladge. This
is the perfect base to explore the Sanetti Plateau where the endemic
Ethiopian Wolf is most commonly found. From the comfort of your
cottage, accompanied by a cosy wood burning stove, watch as the
sun rises over the mountains beyond.