Oromo Studies Association

The Oromo Studies Association (OSA) is a scholarly, multi-disciplinary, nonprofit organization registered in the United States of America. Established by international scholars, covering all continents, OSA seeks to promote studies relating and relevant to the Oromo people.
OSA provides its members with up to date information on conferences, publications, and community issues relating to the Oromo people.

OSA seeks to share Oromo culture and its unique view of the world with our audiences.  If you have a question about the Oromo Studies Association or the Oromo people in general, please
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OSA Appeal Letter to President Obama on the Growing Repression and Human Rights Violations by the Ethiopian Government

"We, at OSA, are disheartened to learn that the Ethiopian regime disproportionately targets Oromo political dissidents and Oromo youth on a continuous basis due to the regime’s fear of potential political power of the Oromo people in Ethiopia, the single largest politically unrepresented population group strategically placed in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa. According to the Human Rights League Horn of Africa (HRLHA)5, the Ethiopian regime has intensified mass abductions and imprisonments on Oromo students and civic organization leaders. According to HRLHA’s report of May 12, 2011, over 30 students have been detained from various universities and the trend continued unabated since then." Read more

Call for Papers: Special issue of the Journal of Oromo Studies on the 25th anniversary of OSA

The Horn of Africa has its share major challenges related to poverty, security, and the environment. It has become painfully clear that there are no “easy” solutions to these problems, and consequently it is going to take deep and sustained reflection, from all viewpoints—technical, social, economic, cultural, historical, and spiritual, among others—if progress is to be achieved. The Journal of Oromo Studies (JOS) seeks to publish a special issue dedicated to exploring the leadership dimensions of the problems of equity, peace, and environmental sustainability in the Horn of Africa.  Read More
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