Asafa Jalata

University of Tennessee Knoxville, Sociology, Faculty Member

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Asafa Jalata is the Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professor and Professor of Sociology and Africana and Global Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He has published and edited several books and numerous scholarly articles in regional and global journals. His book entitled "Cultural Capital and Prospects of Democracy in Botswana, Oromia and Ethiopia" will be published soon.

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Politico-Cultural Prerequisites for Protecting the Oromo National Interest

Sociology Mind, 2019

The main objective of this paper is to identify and critically examine the main cultural and poli... more The main objective of this paper is to identify and critically examine the main cultural and political prerequisites that the Oromo nation needs to achieve its objectives of political sovereignty and egalitarian democracy and to protect its national interest. First, the paper briefly provides background information on the Oromo cultural and institutional foundations. Second, it identifies and explains the major challenges that Oromo nationalists need to overcome to fulfill the objectives of the Oromo national movement. Third, the piece deals with the current cultural and political strengths and challenges and the main ideological and political roadmaps, which are necessary to fully achieve the political objectives of the Oromo nation and to protect the Oromo national interest.

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The Oromo National Movement

The Oromo national movement emerged as a cultural, intellectual, ideological, and political movem... more The Oromo national movement emerged as a cultural, intellectual, ideological, and political movement in opposition to Ethiopian settler colonialism and its particular institutions that denied Oromos either historical space or autonomous cultural, political, and economic development. It was Ethiopian colonial and racial/ethnonational domination, political disenfranchisement and exclusion, cultural destruction and repression, and massive human rights violations that stimulated Oromo nationalism.This movement attempts to rediscover Oromo cultural heritage and strives to combine it with a “modern” ideological discourse in its struggle against Ethiopian colonial domination. Collective historical and contemporary grievances and the heritage of cultural resistance combined with urbanization and formal education to facilitate the birth of Oromo nationalism. Like other national liberation movements that have gained political legitimacy because they base their struggle on the grievances of collective memory3 to regain for the colonized peoples economic, political, and cultural rights the Oromo movement also used these devices to reject national subordination and cultural assimilation.4

The Impacts of European Colonial Terrorism on Africans

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A-TowardAPsychlogy-03(1).docx

The journal of Oromo studies, 2016

Oromo Nationalism in the New Global Context

The journal of Oromo studies, 1997

Ethno‐nationalism and the global ‘modernising’ project

Nations and Nationalism, Jul 1, 2001

This article analyses the features and problems of ethno‐nationalism in the global context. The e... more This article analyses the features and problems of ethno‐nationalism in the global context. The existing bodies of theories and literature on ethno‐nationalism mainly reflect the views and interests of the colonising ethno‐nations and their states at the cost of the dominated ethno‐nations. This preliminary study shows the inadequacy of information, knowledge and theory in the study of nationalism by questioning the validity of the global ‘modernising’ projects of modernisation theorists and some Marxists and by addressing the question of ethno‐nationalism from the perspective of the colonised ethno‐nations. By providing the reference cases of the Oromos and the Southern Sudanese, this study explains the challenge ethno‐nationalism poses to the nature and role of the state.

Baro Tumsa's contributions to the Oromo national movement

Social Identities, Jan 2, 2023

Asafa-Manuscript no. 31-2020-published-pg.1-20.pdf

Social movements and Egalitarian democracy in global perspectives

The Oromo Gada system of government: an indigenous African democracy LEMMU BAISSA

Comparing Ethiopian and Sudanese State Terrorism

This chapter examines the essence of state terrorism in Ethiopia and Sudan in regional and global... more This chapter examines the essence of state terrorism in Ethiopia and Sudan in regional and global contexts. From the late nineteenth century to the present, the “modern” Ethiopian and Sudanese states have been formed, consolidated, and maintained by state terrorism and global connections. The Ethiopian state was created by the alliance of Abyssinian (Amhara-Tigray)-dependent colonialism and European imperialism, and the Sudanese state by British colonialism known as the Anglo-Egyptian condominium. In both Sudan and Ethiopia, colonial political structures dominated by persons claiming Semitic descent emerged through a strategy of massive social and cultural destruction and political violence, particularly state terrorism and genocide. Although Christianity is the main ideology of the Ethiopian state, and Islam is the principal ideology of the Sudanese state, the elites and societies that have dominated the political structures in both empires/countries share a strategy of racializing their own identities and those of indigenous Africans to marginalize indigenous population groups and facilitate the processes of Abyssin-ianization and Christianization in Ethiopia and Arabization and Islamization in Sudan. In addition, just as successive Ethiopian state elites have maintained their legitimacy and survival through external connections and domestic political terrorism, the Sudanese state elites that emerged through the process of decolonization in the mid-twentieth century have depended on external connections and terrorism for their legitimacy and survival.

Two National Liberation Movements Compared: Oromia and the Southern Sudan

Social Justice, Mar 22, 2000

THE NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS OF THE OROMOS AND SOUTHERN SUDANESE are new types of anticoloni... more

Indigenous Peoples and Global Capitalism: Researching, Knowing and Promoting Social Justice

Race and Ethnicity in East Africa (review)

Africa Today, 2001

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Poverty, Powerlessness and the Imperial Interstate System in the Horn of Africa

This chapter examines historical and contemporary factors that have contributed to underdevelopme... more

Fighting against the Injustice of the State and Globalization: Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements

African Studies Review, Dec 1, 2003

... Martin&#x27;s Press, including senior editor Karen Wolny, Ella Pearce, Kristine Larson Ve... more

Precolonial political culture and institutions in Botswana

English Colonial Terrorism, Genocide, and Indigenous Australians

With the expansion of the European-dominated capitalist world system to the Australian continent ... more With the expansion of the European-dominated capitalist world system to the Australian continent in the late eighteenth century, English settlers practiced terror and genocide on indigenous Australians to take over their homeland. These crimes against humanity continued into the nineteenth century until indigenous peoples were almost destroyed, and the ownership of their land was entirely transferred to the English colonial settlers and their descendants. These settlers and their descendants have justified the theft and robbery of indigenous people’s land in the discourses of race, culture, backwardness, religion, civilization, and modernity This chapter first introduces indigenous Australians, their cultures, and the social organizations that made them vulnerable to the British genocidal attack. Second, it explains how the British colonial settlers expropriated indigenous Australians’ land through terrorism and genocide and justified their criminal actions in the doctrine of terra nullius (empty land) (Lindqvist 2007). Third, it identifies and explores several mechanisms of terrorism and genocide and their impacts on different groups of indigenous Australians.

The Place of the Oromo Diaspora in the Oromo National Movement: Lessons from the Agency of the "Old" African Diaspora in the United States

Northeast African Studies, 2007

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Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System: Researching, Knowing, and Promoting Social Justice

Sociology Mind, 2013

This paper explores the major consequences of the expansion of the European-dominated capitalist ... more This paper explores the major consequences of the expansion of the European-dominated capitalist world system, colonial terrorism, and continued subjugation for indigenous Americans, Australians, and Africans between the late fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Western powers as well as most of the descendants of European colonialists in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and in Africa and their regional and local collaborators deny or forget or minimize the crimes committed against indigenous peoples and claim that their ancestors spread modernity and civilization around the world. Not recognizing these crimes and ignoring or forgetting or minimizing them have far reaching consequences for humanity and raise moral and ethical issues for the validity of modern civilization that claims to promote the principles of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights, democracy, and social justice. The commitment to these principles and truly promoting them require reevaluating the past and present mistakes in the modern world system to openly and honestly debate them and seek correct and urgent solutions for the surviving indigenous peoples who are still suffering from state terrorism, massive human rights violations, dispossession of resources and rights, absolute poverty, disease, and illiteracy.

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Politico-Cultural Prerequisites for Protecting the Oromo National Interest

Sociology Mind, 2019

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The Oromo National Movement