Asafa Dibaba and his analysis of Jaarsoo Waaqoo’s National Oromo Poetry
American Chronicle, CA - June 18, 2007
In an earlier article entitled ‘Sociology of Oromo Literature and Asafa Dibaba, leading Oromo Intellectual’, we presented analytically the methodological tools the Oromo scholar used in his research focused on Jaarsoo Waaqoo’s poetry. We noticed a massive interest in the article, and due to the importance of the subject, we re-publish here another part of Mr. Dibaba’s book “Theorizing the present” that evolved out of the author’s MA thesis entitled "Towards a political sociology of Oromo Literature: Jaarsoo Waaqoo’s Poetry".
With his sociological analysis of Jaarsoo Waaqoo’s poetry, Asafa Dibaba opens new horizons in the Sociology of Oromo Literature, and we are convinced through his text the average non – specialized reader will get a pertinent insightful into the greatness of Modern Oromo poetry that has been so far unduly disregarded by European and American scholars ...