From the Blogsphere: The Oromo Renaissance? - BoogaFace @ Blogspot.com - March 17, 2008
About a month ago, on this blog [here], I promised you all that I would be recounting the goings-on of the International Oromo Youth Association. Well, for the past few months, I have been regularly meeting on-line with several people, including the grrl-comrade, to discuss the beginning of a new Oromo webzine called Ogina that will feature poetry, fiction, visual arts, fashion, interviews with musicians, essays on culture . . . and more. Our intention is to contribute to an event that hasn't quite happened yet -- the Oromo Renaissance. Coincidentally, unknown to us when we began our project, the Oromo playwright Dhaba Wayessa recently wrote, "As we all aspire to participate in the Oromo cultural renaissance, we need to nurture and develop our magnificent cultural traditions so that our children may embrace and carry them forward as an essential part of their lives." This week, Dhaba is raising money in Washington D.C. and Minneapolis for a new film project. Also unknown to us when we began, yet another Oromo intellectual, Asafa Jalata, in a scholarly article published a few months ago, asserted that the Oromo should learn from the political projects of other black communities, namely the Harlem Renaissance ... Read more.