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Journal of Oromo Studies
The Journal of Oromo Studies (JOS), is a leading scholarly publication of the
Oromo Studies Association (OSA). Issued twice a year, the journal publishes
articles pertaining to all areas of Oromo Studies past, present and future,
including topics related to the Oromo Diaspora worldwide. Its interdisciplinary
scope and visionary approach offers readers a critical view of the
socioeconomic, political and cultural achievements of the Oromo people in their
interactions with the people of the Horn of Africa.
Reflecting the diverse interests of OSA members, the journal emphasizes
multidisciplinary and embraces variety by publishing articles that allow both
the specialist and the general reader gain far-reaching insights and a thorough
understanding of the Oromo people and the Horn of Africa region.
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Editorial Staff
Editor in Chief
Journal of Oromo Studies Editor
Ezekiel
Gebissa, Ph.D.
Department of Liberal Studies
Kettering University
1700 West Third Ave
Flint, MI 48504
egebissa@kettering.edu
Contributing Editors
Getahun Benti, Southern Illinois University
Taddesse Beriso, Addis Ababa University
Asfaw Beyene, San Diego State University
Bahru Duguma, USAID, USA
Demissew Ejera, University of New Haven, USA
Mohammed Hassen, Georgia State University, USA
Asafa Jalata. University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA
Editorial Advisory Board
Seifudein Adem, Binghamton University
Mario Aguilar, University of St. Andrews, UK
Baissa Lemmu, SUNY Institute of Technology, USA
Paul Baxter, University of Manchester, UK
Mekuria Bulcha, Malardlen University, Sweden
Bichaka Faysissa, Middle Tennessee State University, USA
Bonnie Holcomb, George Washington University, USA
Jan Hultin, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Tesema Ta’a, Addis Ababa Univeristy, USA
Editorial Policy
The Journal of Oromo Studies accepts articles that examine aspects of the Oromo
language, history, literature, politics, philosophy, folklore, culture, economy,
and the role of the Oromo in the broader Horn of Africa region. It also includes
studies on interactions, interdependence, and influence of the Oromo with other
societies and forces and vice versa.
At least two scholars who are experts in the field of the submitted article
evaluate all submissions to the Journal of Oromo Studies. The editorial team of
the journal is committed to communicating the reports or extracts of reports of
evaluators to the author within a reasonable period.
All manuscripts submitted for publication consideration must be original work
that have not been published previously and is currently not being considered by
any other publication outlet.
Articles must be written in English, though occasionally permissions are granted
to those written in Afaan Oromo. Authors are encouraged to avoid jargons
and complexities in favor of clarity, brevity, and simplicity of expression.
Format and Style
Manuscripts should be typed on one side of the paper, double-spaced, with ample
margins and bear the title of the contribution and the name(s) of the author(s)
on a separate sheet of paper. The full postal address/phone/fax/email details of
author(s) should also be included. All pages should be numbered.
The journal uses the both versions of the Chicago Manual of Style 15th Edition.
The Author-Date style of citation is recommended for submissions on social
sciences subjects and the Notes-Bibliography style for the humanities, including
history. In either case, authors must be consistent. and do not give footnotes.
Reference list items are listed alphabetically at the end of the research paper
for authors following Style II. Authors using the author-date style do not need
to submit bibliographic references.
Tables should be typed on separate sheets and their position indicated by a
marginal note in the text. All tables should indicate their source(s) typed
below the tables.
Diagrams and photographs or 'Figures' as they are known generally, should be
referred to as such in the manuscript and numbered consecutively.
The Review Process
Upon receipt of a manuscript, the editorial team will send an acknowledgment to
the author (s). The Editor reads the essay and decides either to go forward with
a peer review or to decline further consideration if the submission does not
meet the OSA mission or JOS standards.
If the manuscript is to be reviewed, the editorial team assigns two reviewers
whose expertise matches the content of the manuscript. Under normal
circumstances, reviewers are given 45 days to return their reports.
Based on the reviewer’s report, the editor decides on whether to accept,
decline, or request revision of the manuscript for resubmission.
The editor informs the decision, and in all cases, sends the reviewers' comments
to the author(s) upon request.
For those manuscripts that are accepted, the Associate Editor(s) checks the
consistency and concordance of citations and references, and improves
expression, and copy edits the manuscript for publication. The JOS does not send
the copyedited text for final approval to the authors.
Previous Editions
Volume 1, No. 1 & 2, 1994
Gada Values: The Building Block of a Democratic Polity
Lammu Baissa
Aspects of Oromo Political Culture
Herbert S. Lewis
Oromo Literature: Gerarsa and the Liberation Struggle
Addisu Tolesa
Distribution of Letters in Oromiffa Text
Demissie G. Yahii
Some Aspects of the Vision and Effectiveness of Oromo Organizations
Bichaka Fayissa
Some Aspects of Oromo History That Have Been Misunderstood
Mohammed Hassen
The Language Policies of Ethiopian Regimes and the History of Written Afaan
Oromoo, 1844-1994
Mekuria Bulcha
Book Reviews
Volume 2, Nos. 1 & 2, 1995
Volume 3, Nos. 1 & 2, 1996
Historical and Cultural Interaction, Symbiosis and Clientage: Waso Boorana and
Somali in Eastern Kenya, 1932-1992
Mario I. Aguilar
Historical challenges in the Development of the Oromo Language and Some Agenda
for Future Research
Feyissa Damie
A preliminary Survey of the elements of Oromo Verbs
Tilahun Gamta
Aspects of Oromo Cultural Endowments and Their Implications for Economic
Development
Bichaka Fayissa
Protecting Environmental Resources of Oromia
Gobana Huluka
Conquest and Resistance in the Gibe Region, 1881-1900
Guluma Gemeda
Symbolic Integration to Oromia: Boorana Traditional Practice, Language, and God
in Eastern Kenya
Mario I. Aguilar
Book Reviews
Volume 4, Nos. 1 & 2, 1997
Volume 5, Nos. 1 & 2, 1998
The Ideological Foundations of Current US Foreign Policy: The 'Promotion of
Democracy' and its Impact on the Oromo National Movement
Sisai Ibssa
Changes and Continutties in Oromo Studies
P.T.W. Baxter
Consonant Clusters in Afaan Oromo
Tilahun Gamta
The Coalition of Colonized Nations: The Sidama Perspective
Seyoum Hameso
Poltical Domination and Exploitation of the Mineral Resources of Oromia: From
Menelik to Meles
Guluma Gemeda
The Origin of the Oromo: A Reconstruction of the Theory of the Cushitic Roots
Feyissa Demie
Book Reviews
Volume 6, Nos. 1 & 2, 1999
Oromo in the World Community Bonnie Holcomb
The Impact of aRacist U.S. Foreign Policy on the Oromo National Struggle
Asafa Jalata
Western Foreign Policy, Profits and Human Rights: The Case of Ethiopia
Trevor Trueman
A Short History of Oromo Colonial Experience, 1870s - 1990s: Part One, 1870s to
1935
Mohammed Hassen
Environmental Impacts of Gold Mining in Oromia
Goben Huluka
Structural and Word Stress Patterns in Afaan Oromo
Tilahun Gamta
Book Reviews
Volume 7, Nos. 1 & 2, 2000
The Politicization of My Oromo-English Dictionary: The Writer's Reflections
Tilahun Gamta
Discourse on Human Rights and Peoples' Rights in Oromo Quest for National
Liberation
Kuwee Kumsa
Intermediate Technology for Underdeveloped Nations
Asfaw Beyene
Where the Bulls Fight, It is the Grass that Suffers: Impact of Border
Administration on Drought Coping Strategies of the Oboo Booran During the 20th
Century
Gufu Oba
A Short History of Oromo Colonial Experience: Part Two, Colonial Consolidation
and Resistance, 1935-2000
Mohammed Hassen
Book Reviews
Volume 8, Nos. 1 & 2, 2001
The Lesser of Two Evils Paradigm of Colonial Rule: A Comparative Study of
Colonialism in the Sudan and Ethiopia
Ezekiel Gebissa
Understanding Oromo Nationalism: An Historical Perspective
Okbazghi Yohannes
Forms of Subject and Object in Afaan Oromo
Tilahun Gamta
Some Features of Traditional Oromo Education
Melaku Makonnen
Famine as an Instrument for Nation-building and State Consolidation: Ethiopia's
Resettlement and Villagization Programs of 1978-1991 in Retrospect
Mekuria Bulcha
Volume 9, Nos. 1 & 2, 2002
Victims of the Ethiopian Government Raids on the Kenya (Moyale)/Ethiopian Border
Dido G. Kotile
Causes and Consequences of Forced Oromo Migration: An Over-view Mekuria Bulcha
Domestic and Regional Implications of State-Sponsored Violence: The Case of the
Ethiopian State Terrorism against the Oromo
Bichaka Fayissa
Intrusions into Oromuma (Oromoness) and the Oromo People's Struggle for Freedom
Benti Getahun
Forest Fires in Ethiopia: Reflections on Socio-Economic and Environmental
Effects of the Fires in 2000: An Assessment Study, June-September 2001
Dechassa Lemessa and Matthew Perault
A Comparison of Methods for Calculating Rainfall Erosion from Daily Rainfall
Amounts in Hararghe Highlands
Shibru Daba
What Should Be Done to Enhance Maize Technology Adoption in Orormia? Strategy
Options
Bedassa Tadesse
The Livestock of Oromia: An Industry
Assefa Regassa Geleta
Review Essays and Book Reviews
Volume 10, Nos. 1 & 2, 2003
NGOs, Social Movements, and Development: A Case Study from the Ethiopian
Regional Stage of Oromia
Aneesa Kassam
Powerlessness and the HIV/AIDS Epidemics in the Ethiopian Empire
Begna Dugassa
OLF and TPLF: Major Issues and Outcomes of A Decade of Negotiations since 1991
Abiyu Gelata
Contesting Marginality in Jest: The Voice of Boorana Women in Oral Tradition
Fugich Wako
Transition from Oral to Written Oromo Poetry
Zelealem Aberra
Shaykh Bakrii Saphalo (1895-1980): A prolific Scholar and Great Oromo
Nationalist
Mohammed Hassen
Book Reviews
Volume 11, Nos. 1 & 2, 2004
The Place of the Oromo in Ethiopian History: 2003 OSA Conference Key Note
Address
Tesema Ta'a
The pride of the Gujii Oromo: An Essay on Cultural Contact and Self-Esteem
Taddesse Berisso
Pluralization in Afaan Oromo
Tilahun Gamta
Human Rights Violations and Famine in Ethiopia
Began Dugassa
Some Medical Si de Effects of Khat Addiction: A Review of Literature
Tesema Taye
Book Reviews
Volume 12, Nos. 1 & 2, 2005
Special Issue: Dedicated to the Memory of Father Lambert Bartels (1915-2000)
Introduction: Performing the Soodduu Ritual
Aneesa Kassam and Paul T.W. Baxter
"Innocently Dateless": Lambert Bartels and the Making of Oromo Religion
Paul T.W. Baxter
"Mutual Inculturation": the Missionary Approach of Lambert Bartels and its
Influence on Catholic Missionaries
Paul Tablino
The "God of the Oromo": A Religious Paradigm in the Work of Lambert Bartels
Mario Aguilar
The Oromo World View
Gemetchu Megerssa
Oromo Religion, Ayyaana and the Possibility of a Sufi Legacy
Thomas Zitlemann
Religious Syncretism in a Gabra Ritual
Aneesa Kassam
Buttaa Rituals of the Sayyoo Oromo
Alessandro Triulzi and Tamene Bitima
Pilgrimage to the Abba Muudaa
Mohammed Hassen
Realpolitik in the Realm of the Sacred: Notes on the Succession of the Qaallu
Karrayyu of the Boorana
Jan Hultin and Abdullahi Shongolo
The Oromo Eschatology: the Prophecy of Areeroo Boosaroo, Narrated by Borbor
Bulee and Guyyoo Dambii
Marco Bassi and Boku Tache
Volume 13, Numbers 1 & 2, July 2006
A Comparative Welfare Analysis of Ethiopian Regions:
The Case of Oromia
Abebe Adugna
The Impact of Ethiopian State Terrorism and Globalization on the Oromo National
Movement
Asafa Jalata
Knowledge, Identity and Power: The Case of Ethiopia and Ethiopianess
Begna F. Dugassa
Historical and Political Orogins of Conflict in the Gambella Region
Bizuneh Beyene
The Human Rights Predicament: A Criticak Gender-Based Analysis of the Somali
Region (Ogaden), Ethiopia
Fowsia Abdulkadir
Jalqabdoota Bifaa fi Sagalee Qubee Afaan Oromoo
(Qubee Afaan Oromo for Beginners)
Tilahun Gamta
Looga Oromoo Walloo (Wallo Oromo Dialect)
Tamane Bitima
Review Essay: Islamism and Its Enemies in the Horn of Africa, edited Alex de
Waal Reviewed by Mohammed Hassen
Book Reviews
Sweetness in the Belly, by Camilla Gibb
Reviewed by Mohammed Hassen
The Horn of Africa as a Common Homeland: The State and Self-Determination in the
Era of heightned Globalization by Leenco Lata
Reviewed by Ezekiel Gebissa