Download or read book Oromia and Ethiopia written by Asafa Jalata and published by Red Sea Press(NJ). This book was released on 2005 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the cultural and political history of the Oromo, their colonisation and incorporation into teh modern state of Ethiopia and their long struggle for self-determination and democracy. Focusing on the development of class and nation-class contradictions manifested in the continuing crisis of the Ethiopian state, Jalata examines why the reorganisation of the state in the '70s and '90s failed to change the nature of Ethiopian colonialism.