ASAFA JALATA is the Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professor and Professor of Sociology and Global and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As a leading social scientist in the fields of indigenous and human rights investigations, critical race studies, Africana and global studies, and nationalism and terrorism studies, Professor Jalata has engaged in studying and explaining the chains of cultural, historical, and political-economic forces of the capitalist world system that have shaped racial inequality, development, underdevelopment, terrorism, and social movements on local, regional, and global levels. He is a worldwide renowned scholar in Oromo studies and these fields. Professor Jalata has published and edited fifteen books, eighteen book chapters, eight dozen refereed articles in national, regional, and global refereed journals, and several public journal articles.
Professor Jalata’s most recent books include The Oromo Movement and Imperial Politics: Ideology and Culture in Oromia and Ethiopia (New York: Lexington Books 2021/2022), Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia (London: Routledge, 2019/2020), Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization: From Christopher Columbus to Osama bin Laden, (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016/2017), and Contending Nationalisms of Oromia and Ethiopia: Struggling for Statehood, Sovereignty and Multinational Democracy (Global Academic Publishing of Binghamton University, 2010).
For further information, see
http://works.bepress.com/asafa_jalata/
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Oromummaa: Oromo Culture, Identity and Nationalism
Oromia & Ethiopia: State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict, 1868-2004,
State Crises, Globalization, and National Movements in the Northeast Africa
Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom and Democracy
Books
1. Baro Tumsa: The Principal Architect of the Oromo Liberation Front, (In press).
2. 2020/2022. The Oromo Movement and Imperial Politics: Ideology and Culture in Oromia and Ethiopia. New York: Lexington Books. Published in paperback (2022)
3. 2019/2020. Cultural Capital and Prospects for Democracy in Botswana and Ethiopia. London: Routledge. Published in paperback.
4. 2016/2017. Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization: From Christopher Columbus to Osama bin Laden, (Palgrave Macmillan, USA). Published in paperback.
5. 2014. The Macha-Tulama Association: Its Importance in Oromo History, with Mohammed Hassen. Knoxville: UTK Printing Press.
6. 2012. Fighting against the Injustice of the State and Globalization: Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements, New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Reprinted in paperback, 2012 [2001].
7. 2010. Contending Nationalisms of Oromia and Ethiopia: Struggling for Statehood, Sovereignty, and Multinational Democracy, (Binghamton: Global Academic Publishing, Binghamton University, State University of New York).
8. 2007. Oromummaa: Oromo Culture, Identity and Nationalism, (Atlanta, GA: Oromia Publishing Company.
9. 2005. Oromia & Ethiopia: State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict, 1868-2004, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press).
10. 1993. Oromia & Ethiopia: State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict, 1868-1992, (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers).
Edited Books
11. 2014. Social Justice and the University: Globalization, Human Rights and the Future of Democracy. Edited with Jon Shefner, Bobby Jones, and Harry Dams. London: Palgrave.
12. 2007. Africa up to Sixteenth Century: Introduction to African Studies, edited with Perry Kyles and Addisu Tolesa, (Boston: Pearson).
13. 2007. Africa since the Sixteenth Century: Introduction to African Studies, edited with Perry Kyles and Addisu Tolesa, (Boston: Pearson).
14. 2004. State Crises, Globalization, and National Movements in the Northeast Africa, (edited book, with my two chapters), (London: Routledge).
15. 1998. Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom and Democracy, edited, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press).
ARTICLES IN REFEREED JOURNALS
2024 “Baro Tumsa’s Involvement in the MTA and OLF and Political Activism,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, (forthcoming).
2024 “The Necessity of the Rebirth of Sovereign and Democratic Oromia,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, (forthcoming).
2023 “Race and Racism in the Ethiopian Context,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Volume 28, Number2,pp. 85-122.
2023 “The Oromo Movement for Gadaa/Siiqqee Renaissance in the 21st Century,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, pp. 1-27.
2023 “Baro Tumsa’s Contributions to the Oromo National Movement,” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, pp. 1-27.
2023 “The Neo-Nafxanya Government of Abiy Ahmed, Terrorism, and Gross Human Rights Violations in Oromia and Ethiopia.” Sociology Mind, 13, 63-83. https://www.scirp.org/pdf/sm_2023022014283794.pdf
6. 2021. “Review Essay: Are the Tulama and Wallo Oromo Habasha? Sociology Mind, Vol.11 No.4, October 2021, pp.1-28.
| 7. 2020. “The Need for Establishing Oromo National Civic Institutions; The Cases of Global Gumii Oromia and Oromia Global Forum.” East African Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, December, Volume 5 (2) 1-20. 8. 2019. “The Qerroo/Qarree peaceful movement for national self-determination and multinational Confederal or federal democracy.” Journal of Oromo Studies. Volume 26. |
| 9. 2019. “Politico-Cultural Prerequisites for Protecting the Oromo National Interest,” Sociology Mind, Vol.9 No.1, January 9: 95-113. |
10. 2018. “The Contested and Expanding Meaning of Democracy,” Journal of Interdisciplinary Sciences, Volume 2: 1-29.
11. 2018/19. “The Oromo Struggle: Knowledge and Agency in the Age of Globalization,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Volume 25, Numbers 1 &2, pp. 25-61, 2019.
12. 2018/2019. “The Oromo Movement: The Effects of Globalization and Terrorism on Oromia and Ethiopia,” Social Justice: A journal of crime, conflict & world order, Vol. 44, No. 4, Issue 150, pp. 83-105 (Published in 2019).
13. 2016. “Reimagining Global Social Movements in the Perspective of Egalitarian Democracy,” Humanity & Society, pp. 1-34.
14. 2016 “The Oromo National Movement and Gross Human Rights Violations in the Age of Globalization,” European Scientific Journal, Vol. 12, Number 5: 177-204.
15. 2016. “The Oromo Nation: Toward Mental Liberation and Empowerment,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 1 & 2: 203-237.
16. 2015. “Theorizing Modern Society as an Alternative Reality: How Critical Theory and Indigenous Critiques of Globalization Must Learn from Each other,” with Harry Damhs in Globalization, Critique, and Social Theory: Diagnoses and Challenges Current Perspectives in Social Theory, (Emerald Group Publishing Limited) Volume 33, 75-133.
17. 2015. “Theorizing Oromummaa” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 22, Number 1 & 2, pp. 1-35.
18. 2015. “The Triple Causes of African Underdevelopment: Colonial Capitalism, State Terrorism, and Racism,” International Journal of Sociology and Anthropology Vol. 7(3), pp. 75-91, March.
19. 2014. “Gadaa as the Fountain of Oromummaaa and the Theoretical Base of Oromo Liberation,” with Harwood Schaffer, Journal of Oromo Studies, Volume 21, Number 1, pp. 1-25.
20. 2014. “Promoting and Developing Oromummaa,” The Journal of Pan-African Studies Vol. 6, no.8: 120-145.
21. 2013. “The Oromo, Gadaa/Siqqee and the Liberation of Ethiopian Colonial Subjects,” with Harwood Schaffer, Alter-Native: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples, Vol. 9, Issue 4: 277-295.
22. 2013. “The Impacts of English Colonial Terrorism and Genocide on Indigenous/Black Australians,” Sage Open, July-September, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 1-12.
23. 2013. “Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System: Researching, Knowing and Promoting Social Justice,” Sociology Mind, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 156-178.
24. 2013. “Colonial Terrorism, Global Capitalism, and African Underdevelopment: 500 Years of Crimes Against African Peoples,” The Journal of Pan-African Studies, Vol. 5, No. 9, March 1-43.
25. 2013. “The Impacts of Terrorism and Capitalist Incorporation on Indigenous Americans,” Journal of World-Systems Research, American Sociological Association, Volume XIX, Number 1, pp. 130-152.
26. 2012. “Gadaa (Oromo Democracy): An Example of Classical African Civilization, The Journal of Pan-African Studies, vol. 5, no.1, March 2012, pp. 126-152.
27. 2011. “My Conversation with Sisai Ibssa,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1, July, Special Issue, pp. 81-107.
28. 2011. “The Oromo in Exile: Creating Knowledge and Promoting Social Justice,” Journal of Societies Without Borders/Sociologists Without Border/Sociologos Sin Fronteras: Human Rights & the Social Sciences 6: 1, June, 33-72.
29. 2011. “Terrorism from Above and Below in the Age of Globalization,” Sociology Mind, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-15.
30. 2011. “Imperfections in U.S. Foreign Policy toward Oromia and Ethiopia: Will The Obama Administration Introduce Change? The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.4, no.3, March 2011, pp. 131-15
31. 2011. “Oromian Urban Centers: Consequences of Spatial Concentration Power in Multinational Ethiopia, Journal of Oromos Studies, Vol. 17 No. 2, January 2011, pp. 39-74.
32. 2010. “The Ethiopian State: Authoritarianism, Violence, and Clandestine Genocide,” The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 3, no.6, March, pp. 160-189.
33. 2010. “The Tigrayan-led Ethiopian State, Repression, Terrorism and Gross Human Rights Violations in Oromia and Ethiopia,” Horn of Africa, Vol. Xxviii, pp. 47-82.
34. 2010. “Conceptualizing and Theorizing Terrorism in the Historical and Global Context,” Humanity and Society, Vol. 34 (November): 317-349.
35. 2009. “Being in and out of Africa: The Impact Duality of Ethiopianism,” The Journal of Black Studies, 40: 189-214.
36. 2009. “The Duality of Ethiopianism and its Impacts on Oromo society, “Vital Issues: The Journal of African American Speeches, Volume XVIII, No.1, pp.22-30.
37. 2008. “Struggling for Social Justice in the Capitalist World System: The Cases of African Americans, Oromos, Southern and Western Sudanese,” Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Vol. 14, No. 3, May, pp. 363-388.
38. 2008. “Foundations of a State in Oromia: Applying Gadaa Principles in the Twenty-First Century,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Volume 15, Number 2, July: 133-189.
39. 2007. “Ethiopia on the Fire of Competing Nationalisms: The Oromo People’s Movement, the State, and the West,” Horn of Africa, Vol. xxv, pp. 90-134.
40. 2007. “The Place of the Oromo Diaspora in the Oromo National Movement: Lessons from the Agency of Old African Diaspora in the US,” The Northeast Journal of African Studies, Volume, 10:2, pp. 131-160.
41. 2007. “Oromo National Political Leadership: Assessing the Past and Mapping the Future,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, February/March, (With Harwood Schaffer), pp. 79-116.
42. 2006. “The Impact of Ethiopian State Terrorism and Globalization on the Oromo National Movement,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 13 nos. 1 & 2: 19-56.
43. 2005. “State Terrorism and Globalization: The Cases of Ethiopia and Sudan, International Journal of Comparative Sociology; vol. 46 (1-2): 79-102.
44. 2003. “Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements in the Global Context,” Social Justice, Vol. 30:1: 67-111.
45. 2002. “Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Ethnocratic Politics,” The Horn of Africa, Volume XX, pp, 11-58.
46. 2002. “Revisiting the Black Struggle: Lessons for the 21st century,” The Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1, September, PP. 86-116
47. 2001. “Ethno-nationalism and the Global ‘Modernizing’ Project,” Nations and Nationalism: Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Vol. 7, part 3, July: 385-405.
48. 2000. “Two Liberation Movements Compared: Oromia & Southern Sudan,” Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order, Vol. 27, No. 1: 152-174.
49. 1999. “The Impact of a Racist U. S. Foreign Policy on the Oromo National Struggle,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 6, Numbers, 1 & 2: 49-89.
50. 1997. “Oromo Nationalism in the New Global Context,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, 4/1 & 2: 83-114.
51. 1996. “The Struggle for Knowledge: The Case of Emergent Oromo Studies,” The African Studies Review, 39/2: 95-123.
52. 1995. “The Emergence of Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Reaction,” Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order, 22/3: 165-189.
53. 1993. “Ethiopia and Ethnic Politics: The Case of Oromo Nationalism,” Dialectical Anthropology, 18: 381-402.
54. 1993. “Sociocultural Origins of the Oromo National Movement in Ethiopia,” The Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 21: 267-286.
55. 1993. “The Oromo, Change and Continuity in Ethiopian Colonial Politics,” The Journal of Oromo Studies, 1/1:17-27.
56. 1991. “The Modern World-Economy, Ethiopian Settler Colonialism, and the Oromos, the 1880s-1930s,” Horn of Africa, XIV/1 & 2: 59-80.
Book Chapters
“The Oromo of Northeast Africa,” The Transformation of the African State, edited by Allan Coper and Emmanuel Oritsejafor. London: Zed Press, (forthcoming).
“Revolutionary Ruptures, Regime Changes, and the Oromo Question: A fifty-year view of the 1974 Unsuccessful Ethiopian Revolution,” The Ethiopian Revolution in Broader Perspective: Five Decades On, edited by Etana H. Dinka, London: Zed Books/Bloomsbury.
2023 “The Missing Factor in Critical Global Studies: Indigenous Knowledge,” Planetary Sociology: Beyond the Entanglement of Identity and Social Structure, Current Perspectives in Social Theory, edited by Harry Dahms, Emerald Publishing Limited Howard House, Wagon Lane, Bingley, pp 187-208.
57. 2014. “Researching, Knowing and Promoting Social Justice for Indigenous Americans,” pp. 49-66, Social Justice and the University: Globalization, Human Rights and the Future ofDemocracy, edited with Jon Shefner, Bobby Jones, Harry Dams. New York: Palgrave.
58. 2013. “European Colonial Terrorism and the Incorporation of Africa into the CapitalistsWorld System,” Social Fabric Transformations: Research on InternationalPerspective, (Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, edited by Aaron Porter, pp. 23-66.
59. 2009. “The Struggle of the Oromo to preserve and Indigenous Democracy,” SharingCultures 2009, edited by Sergio Lira, Rogerio Amoeda, Cristina Pinherio, Joao Pinheiro, and Fernando Oliveira, (Barcelos, Portugal: Green LinesInstitute for Sustainable Development), pp. 467-475
60. 2009. “The Place of the Oromo Diaspora in the Oromo National Movement: Lessons from the Agency of ‘Old’ African Diaspora in the US,” Contested Terrain: Essays on Oromo Studies, Ethiopianist Discourse and Politically Engaged Scholarship, edited by Ezekiel Gebissa, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press).
61. 2006. “Ethno-nationalism and the Global ‘Modernizing’ Project,” Globalization and Violence, Part III, edited by Paul W. James, (London: Sage Publications).
62. 2006. “The Oromo Movement and the Crisis of the Ethiopian State,” Arrested Developmentin Ethiopia, editors, Seyoum Hameso and Mohammed Hassen, (Lawrenceville, NJ:The Red Sea Press), pp. 279-306.
63. 2006. “Terrorism and Globalization: The Cases of Ethiopia and Sudan,” Terrorism: A NewTestament (Toronto: de Sitter Publications), pp. 79-102.
64. 2004. “The Process of State Formation in the Horn of Africa in Comparative Perspective,” State Crises, Globalization, and National Movements in the Horn of Africa, A. Jalata, (ed.) London: Routledge, pp.1-29.
65. 2004. “Two National Movements Compared: Southern Sudanese and Oromia,” State Crises, Globalisation, and National Movements in the Horn of Africa, (London: Routledge), pp. 78-100.
66. 2000. “US-Sponsored Ethiopian-Democracy and State Terrorism,” Crisis and Terror in the Horn of Africa: Autopsy of Democracy and Human Rights, edited by Pietro Toggia, Pat Lauderdale, and Abebe Zegeye, (Burlington, VT: Ashagte), pp. 64-89.
67. 1998. “Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Reaction,” Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse, edited by A. Jalata, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press), pp. 1-26.
68. 1998. “The Cultural Root of Oromo Nationalism,” Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press), pp. 27-49.
69. 1998. “The Struggle for Knowledge: The Case of Emergent Oromo Studies,” Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press), pp. 253-290.
70. 1995. “African American Nationalism, Development, and Afrocentricity: Implications for the twenty-first Century,” Molefi Kete and Afrocentricity: In Praise and Criticism, edited by Dhyana Ziegler, (Nashville, TN.: Winston-Derek Publishers Group), pp. 153-174.
71. 1995. “Poverty, Powerlessness and the Imperial Interstate System in the Horn of Africa,” Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa, edited by John Sorenson, (New York: Macmillan/St. Martin’s), pp. 31-75.
72. 2014. “Researching, Knowing and Promoting Social Justice for Indigenous Americans,” pp. 49-66, Social Justice and the University: Globalization, Human Rights and the Future ofDemocracy, edited with Jon Shefner, Bobby Jones, Harry Dams. New York: Palgrave.
73. 2013. “European Colonial Terrorism and the Incorporation of Africa into the Capitalist World System,” Social Fabric Transformations: Research on International
Perspective, (Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research, edited by Aaron
C. Porter, pp. 23-66.
74. 2009. “The Struggle of the Oromo to preserve and Indigenous Democracy,” SharingCultures 2009, edited by Sergio Lira, Rogerio Amoeda, Cristina Pinherio, Joao
Pinheiro, and Fernando Oliveira, (Barcelos, Portugal: Green Lin Institute for Sustainable Development), pp. 467-475
75. 2009. “The Place of the Oromo Diaspora in the Oromo National Movement: Lessons from the Agency of ‘Old’ African Diaspora in the US,” Contested Terrain: Essays on Oromo Studies, Ethiopianist Discourse and Politically Engaged Scholarship, edited by Ezekiel Gebissa, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press).
76. 2006. “Ethno-nationalism and the Global ‘Modernizing’ Project,” Globalization and Violence, Part III, edited by Paul W. James, (London: Sage Publications).
77. 2006. “The Oromo Movement and the Crisis of the Ethiopian State,” Arrested Development in Ethiopia, editors, Seyoum Hameso and Mohammed Hassen, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press), pp. 279-306.
78. 2006. “Terrorism and Globalization: The Cases of Ethiopia and Sudan,” Terrorism: A NewTestament (Toronto: de Sitter Publications), pp. 79-102.
79. 2004. “The Process of State Formation in the Horn of Africa in Comparative Perspective,” State Crises, Globalization, and National Movements in the Horn of Africa, A. Jalata, (ed.) London: Routledge, pp.1-29.
80. 2004. “Two National Movements Compared: Southern Sudanese and Oromia,” State Crises, Globalisation, and National Movements in the Horn of Africa, (London: Routledge), pp. 78-100.
81. 2000. “US-Sponsored Ethiopian-Democracy and State Terrorism,” Crisis and Terror in the Horn of Africa: Autopsy of Democracy and Human Rights, edited by Pietro Toggia, Pat Lauderdale, and Abebe Zegeye, (Burlington, VT: Ashagte), pp. 64-89.
82. 1998. “Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Reaction,” Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse, edited by A. Jalata, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press), pp. 1-26.
83. 1998. “The Cultural Root of Oromo Nationalism,” Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press), pp. 27-49.
84. 1998. “The Struggle for Knowledge: The Case of Emergent Oromo Studies,” Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press), pp. 253-290.
85. 1995. “African American Nationalism, Development, and Afrocentricity: Implications for the twenty-first Century,” Molefi Kete and Afrocentricity: In Praise and Criticism, edited by Dhyana Ziegler, (Nashville, TN.: Winston-Derek Publishers Group), pp. 153-174.
86. 1995. “Poverty, Powerlessness and the Imperial Interstate System in the Horn of Africa,” Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa, edited by John Sorenson, (New York: Macmillan/St. Martin’s), pp. 31-75.
Non-referred articles
87. “Abiy’s Regime is a Modern Version of the Ethiopian Empire-State,” Ethiopian Insight, April 25, 2022.
” Ethiopian Insight
88. 2020. “What lies behind the war in Tigray?” November 19, The Conversation (Academic rigor journal).
89. “Why did Ethiopia’s Prime Minister blame African Americans for their victimization?” https://www.ethiopia-insight.com/2020/10/08/why-did-ethiopias-prime-minister-blame-african-americans-for-their-victimization/
90. 2016. “Ethiopia’s state of emergency: both sides are determined to fight to the finish,” https://theconversation.com/drafts/67166/edit
91. 2016. “Why the Oromo protests mark a change in Ethiopia’s political landscape,” The Conversation, <a href=”https://theconversation.com/why-the-oromo-protests-mark-a-change-in ethiopias-“https://theconversation.com/why-the-oromo-protests-mark-a-change-in ethiopias political-landscape.Book Reviews
92. 2014.Reviewed Edmond J. Keller’s book. Identity, Citizenship and Political Conflict in Africa. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2014. 208 pp. Notes. References. Price not given. African Conflict Peacebuilding Review, 2014. 93. 2002. Race and Ethnicity in East Africa. St. Martin’s Press,2000. Peter G. Foster, Michael Hitchcock, Francis F. Lyimo, Africa Today, Volume 48, Number 4, pp, 134-136. 94. Reviewed Being and Becoming Oromo: Historical and Anthropological Enquiries. Uppsala: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1996. Edited by P. T. W. Baxter, Jan Hultin, and Alessandro Triulzi. The African Studies Review, Vol. 42, No. 1, 136-139.95. 2007. “The Oromo National Movement: Where was it and where is it now? Burqaa, Vol. 4, No 2, pp, 6-8, 20-21, 23.
96. 2006. “Sochii Bilisummaa Ummata Kibba Sudaan (SPLM/SPLA),” (The Southern Sudanese Movement), Vol. 3, Vol. 1, pp. 30-32.
97. 2006. “The Deepening of Oromummaa and Oromo Politics: What should be done to accomplish victory. Bakkalcha Oromiyaa, Vol. 11, No. 3, pp. 9-12, 40- 41.
98. 2006. “Oromummaafi Dargaggoota Oromoo,” (Oromo Nationalism and Oromo Youth), Burqaa, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 15, 19, 25-26.
99. 2005. “The Current State of Oromo Politics,” Burqaa, pp. 12-13.
100. 2005. “Sochii Bilisummaa Ummata Kibba Sudan,” Burqaa, pp. 30-31.
101. 2005. “Harmonizing Pragmatism, Globalization, and the Oromo Struggle,”
Daandi: A Publication of the United Liberation Forces of Oromia, pp. 4- 12.
102. 2004. “Sbboontotni Oromoaa Itiophiyawi Miti,” Burqaa, pp. 24-28.
103. 2003. “The Organization Impact of Uneven Development of Oromo Nationalism,” Mandiisuu, Vol. 5, No. 2, 2003: 15-21.
104. 1997. “Oromos,” The Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life, (East word Publications Development), 356-360.
105. 1995. “The Condition of the Oromo Struggle in North America,” Urjii, March I/1: 31-33.
106. 1995. “Reinventing an Oromian State: A Theoretical Analysis,” Urjii, January I/1: 21-24.
107. 1994. “Sheik Hussein Suura and the Oromo Struggle,” The Oromo Commentary: Bulletin for Critical Analysis of Current Affairs in the Horn of Africa, IV/1: 5-7.
108. 1992. “Two Freedom Movements Compared: The Cases of the Oromo and African Americans,” The Oromo Commentary, II/1: 13-16.
109. 1992. “Ethiopia: The Oromo’s Quest for Peace and Democracy,” Africa, April 7-8.
110. 1988. “The Colonial State, Capitalist Incorporation and the Agrarian Question in the Ethiopian Empire,” Waldhaansso: Journal of the Union of Oromo in North America, 12/2: 4-44.
CONFERENCE/COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS
2021. “The Role of Oromo National Civic Institutions in the Liberation of Oromia,” The 2021 Conference of Network of Oromo Studies, Feb. 27-28
2021. “Oromo Culture, Gada, and National Oromummaa,” Internal Oromo Liberation Front Conference, March 8.
2021. “Which way Oromia? The Journey toward creating an independent democratic Oromia state,” The 2021 Oromo Studies Annal Conference, August 7 and 8.
2021. “The Role of Oromo National Civic Institution in the Liberation of Oromia,” The Conference of Network of Oromo Studies, February 27-28.
2021. “Oromo nationalism and the Gadaa System,” The Oromo Community of Australia and New Zealand January 30.
2020. “What should Oromo do to liberate themselves from the neo-nafxanya government,” The Conference of Oromo Scholars Society in Europe, January 19.
2020. “Oromo Culture and Oromummaa,” Paper presented at the Colorado Oromo Community January 9.
2020. “Ethiopian Settler Colonialism and Epistemological Genocide,” Paper presented at the Conference of Confronting Genocide in Ethiopia, Organized by Oromia Global Forum, Oromo Scholars and Professional Group, Oromo Studies Association, and the Genocidal Watch of the Horn of Africa, December 12 and 13.
2020. “Qeerroo Ganamaa: Haaromisa Aadaa fi Oromummaa” (The Pioneer Oromo Youth Cultural Renaissance and Oromummaa), The Conference on the Role the Pioneers Oromo Youth,” Global online Conference, November 17.
2020. “Pre-colonial Oromia and the Colonization of Oromia,” Oromo Online Symposium by Walaabomuu and Free Oromia, October 11.
2020. “Institutionalizing and Defending National Oromummaa,”An Invited Presentation at the Seminar of Oromo Scholars in Europe, August 15.
2020. “Applying Gadaa/Siiqqee Principles in Constructing a Democratic Oromia State,” The 2020 Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, July 25.
2020. “Institutionalizing the Oromo Movement: Prerequisites for Building a Democratic Oromia State,” The National Conference of Oromia Global Forum, July 18, 2020.
2020. “The Politics of Crisis, Covid-19, and Oromia’s Institutional Capacity Building,” The 2020 Oromo Studies Mid-Year Annual Conference, May 9.
2019. “The Necessity of Civic Institutional Capacity Building,” The 2019 Oromo Studies Annual Conference, Finfinnee (Addis Ababa), Oromia, Ethiopia, July 26-28.
2019. “The Path Toward Building Democratic Political Institutions in Oromo and Ethiopia,” The 2019 OSA Mid-year Conference, March 23-24.
2018. “State Terrorism, Land Grabbing, and Displacement in Oromia and Ethiopia,”
61nd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia.
2018. “Ethiopia Political Unrest: Growing Pains or Mortal Wounds,” US African Mission Center, Board of Experts Spring Annual Conference, Greensboro Conference Center, May 21-22, McLean, VA.
2018. “Historical and Contemporary Oromo Leadership and Institutional Challenges: Internal and External factors,” Global Gumii Oromia (GGO): First Leadership Conference, January 12-14, Venue: Oromo House 6212 3rd ST NW Washington, D.C., 2011-1312.
2017. “The Need For the Formation of Global Gumii Oromia,” Seminar on Preventing Genocide and Promoting Social Justice in Oromia, October 15, Morison Hall, 7600 Flower Ave., Takoma Park, MD 20912.
2017. “The Challenges of Building Oromo National Institutions: A Sociological View,” The 2017 Oromo Studies Annual Conference, July 29-30.
2017. “The Founding Manifesto Global Gumii Oromia,” The Founding Conference of Global Gumii Oromia,” Minneapolis, Minnesota,” April 14-16.
2017. “The Missing Factor in Critical Race Studies: Indigenous Knowledge,” New Directions in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Conference, The University of Tennessee at Knoxville, April 27-29.
2016. “The Impact of the Current Oromo Protest Movement on the Ethiopian Political Landscape,” The 59th Annual Conference of the African Studies Association, Washington, DC, December 1-3.
2016. “The Oromo Struggle: Knowledge and Agency in the Age of Globalization,” The 30th Annual Conference of Oromo Studies, Howard University, Washington, DC, July 29 to 31.
2016. “The Oromo Movement: The Effects of Stater Terrorism and Globalization on Oromia and Ethiopia,” Paper presented at the Conference on New Directions in Critical Criminology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, May 6-7.
2015. “Theorizing Oromummaa,” The 29th Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Howard University, Washington, DC, August 1-2.
2015. “The Oromo Students Protest Movement and the Tigrayan-led Ethiopian Government Repression,” World Social Forum, Tunis, Tunisia, 24-28, Campus Farhat Hached El Manar.
2014. “Reimagining Social Movements in Perspective of Egalitarian Democracy,” Social Movements and Global Transformation: Political Economy of the World-System XXXVIIIth Annual Conference, April 10-12, University of Pittsburgh.
2014. “The Limit of Social Theory and Indigenous Critues of Globalization,” 12th Annual ISTC Conference – Globalization, Critique and Social Theory, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, May 15 to 17.
2013. “Capitalism, Terrorism, Racism and the Suffering of the African Peoples,” The 2013 Association of Humanist Sociology Meeting, October 9-13, at the Key Bridg Marriot in Arlington, Virginia.
2013. “Gada (Oromo Democracy) as the Fountain of Oromummaa and the Theoretical Model of Oromo Liberation, “ The 2013 Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Howard University, Washington, DC, August 3 and 4.
2013. “Organizational Capacity Building for Unifying and Empowering the Oromo Nation,” OSA Mid-Year Conference, Georgia State University, Atlanta, March 16.
2012. “State and Oppositional Terrorism: The Case of Israelis and Palestinians,’ the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association for Humanist Sociology, Nashville, TN, November 7-11.
2012. “Promoting and Developing Oromummaa,” A Seminar on Survival of Oromummaa, the Washington Community Organization, September, 1.
2012. “Liberation Knowledge, Consciousness Building, and Oromo Empowerment,” The 2012 Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, July 14-15.
2012. “The Oromo: Towards Psychological Liberation and Oromo Empowerment,” The Oromo Community in the United Kingdom, May 19.
2011. “My Conversation with Sisai Ibssa,” The Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 24-26.
2011. “PDF European Colonial Terrorism and the Incorporation of Africa into the Capitalist World System,” the 5th Annual International Conference on Sociology, 9-12 May, Athens, Greece.
2011. “Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System: Researching, Knowing and Promoting Social Justice,” Social Justice and the University, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 29-30.
2011. “The Impacts of Capitalists Incorporation and Terrorism on Indigenous Americans,” Conference on Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide,” University of California, Riverside, March 10-12.
2010. “The Oromo in Exile: Creating Knowledge and Promoting Social Justice,” Paper Presented at the 2010 Association for Humanist Sociology, Santa Fe, New Mexico, November3-7 and at the 2010 African Studies Association, San Francisco, November 18-21.
2010. “Commemorating the Oromo Martyrs’ Day,” The Oromo Community of Atlanta, April 15.
2010. “Oromummaa: National Identity and Politics of Liberation” The Oromo Liberation Front Eastern US Regional Mid-Year Conference, March 15.
2010. “What is Next for the Oromo People?,” 4th Annual International Conference on Human Rights, April 12.
2010. “The Urgency of Building Oromo National Consensus,” 2010 OSA Annual Conference, July 30-31.
2010. “The Impacts of Colonial Terrorism and Global Imperialism on Africa,” Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies, October 2.
2010. “Imagining and Explaining Colonial Regionalism/Clannism in relation to Oromummaa (Oromo Nationalism),” Oromo Liberation Annual Conference Atlanta, Georgia, July 31.
2009. “Massive Human Rights Violations in Ethiopia and Sudan,” The O’Connor Seniors for Creative Learning of Knoxville, September 10.
2009. “Oromo Self-Knowledge for Building Organizational Capacity,” The Oromia Community of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October 10.
2009. “Ethiopia: External legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and State Terrorism,” (With Harwood Schaffer), Oromo Studies Association Twenty-third Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia State University, August 12.
2009. “The Struggle of the Oromo to Preserve an indigenous Democracy,” Sharing Cultures: International Conference on Intangible Heritage, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal, May 29-June 1.
2009. “Shortcomings in U.S. Foreign Policy toward Oromia and Ethiopia: Obama Administration Introduce Change?” Paper presented at the Oromo Studies Association Midyear Conference, Howard University, April 4.
2009. “Political Activism and Networking for Empowering Oromia,” The Washington Oromo Community, Washington, DC, February 27.
2009. “The Global Oromo Activist Network,” The Mini-Conference of the Oromo Liberation Front,” Washington, DC, February 28.
2008. “Increasing Political Activism and Mobilization: Building Oromo Human Agency and Human Power for Liberation,” Paper presented to the Oromo Community of Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 29.
2008. “Faces of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization: Terrorism from above and below,” Paper presented at the Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning Philosophical Society, November 7
2008. “The Oromo National Movement at a Crossroads: Towards Total Victory or Total Defeat,” The Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 28-29.
2007. “The Meles Regime, Political Repression, and Terrorism in Oromia and Ethiopia,” Paper presented at the Symposium organized by Horn of African Americans for Peace on “Human Rights Abuses and Genocide Committed by the TPLF Minority Government of Ethiopia,” Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 13.
2007. “External Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and State Terrorism: The Triple Enemies of Peace and Development in Ethiopia,” The 50th Annual Conference of the African Studies Association, New York, October 18-21.
2007. “Applying Gada (Oromo Democracy) in Constructing the State In the 21st Century Oromia,” The 2007 Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 28-29.
2007. “Ethiopia: The State of Terror and War in the Horn of Africa,” Paper Presented at Eritrean Festival, July 11, Washington, DC.
2007. “Commemorating Oromo Martyrs’ Day,” Paper Presented at the Oromo Community of Washington, DC, and Atlanta, April 14 and 21.
2007. “The Concept of Oromummaa and Identity Formation Contemporary Oromo Society,” The Oromo Studies Association Mid-Year Meeting, Howard University, Washington, DC, July 14.
2007. “The Oromo National Movement: Where was it and where is it now?” The Oromo Liberation Front Semi-Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, March 3-4.
2007. “The duality of Ethiopianism and its impacts on Oromos,” Presented at the Martin Luther King Holiday Human Rights Symposium and Conflict Resolution,” Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, January 11.
2007. “Oromummaa fi Dargagoo Oromoo,” The Oromia Youth Association, Minneapolis, January 7.
2007. “Deepening of Oromummaa and Oromo Politics: What should done to Accomplish victory?” Paper Presented to the Ohio Oromo Community, June 4.
2006. “Ethiopia on the Fire of Competing Nationalisms: The Oromo People’s Movement, the State, and the West,” The Forum of Ethnicity and National Identity, organized by the Ethiopian Students Association at Harvard University, November 12
2006. “Oromummaa as the Main aspect of Oromo Nationalism,” The Global Conference of Internet Paltalk, December 11
2006. “Leadership and Organizational Issues in the Oromo National Movement,” The 2006 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, University Minnesota, Minneapolis, July 29-30.
2005. “The Current State of Oromo Politics: What should be done about it?” The 2005 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC, Howard University, August 27-28.
2005. “The Oromo national Struggle,” The Global Conference of Internet Paltalk,” September 17.
2005. “Struggling for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization: The Cases of African Americans, Oromos, and Southern Sudanese,” The 2005 Annual Conference of the Global Studies Association, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
2004. “Being and Out of Africa: The Duality of Ethiopianism and its Consequences” The African Studies Association Annual Conference, New Orleans, LA, November 11-14.
2004. “Oromo Political Culture and Leadership,” The 2004 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, August 28-29, Atlanta, Georgia.
2004. “Oromia: A Nation in Search of Freedom and Democracy in the Global Economy,” The Oromo Community in Washington, Seattle, September 25.
2004. “Globalization and the Oromo national Struggle,” Bergen, Norway, October 1.
2004. “Globalization and its impacts on Indigenous Peoples: The case of the Oromo of Northeast Africa,” Westminster Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, Tennessee
2004. “Oromo Political Culture,” the Oromo Community in Philadelphia, November 27.
2003. “Oromummaa and Diversity in the Current Era of Globalization,” The 2003 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, Howard University.
2003. “The Oromo Diaspora,” The World History Association Annual Conference Georgia State University, Atlanta, June 27-29.
2003. “Rethinking the Ethiopian State: The Consequences of the Privatization and Ethnicization/Racialization of Public Power,” The 2003 African Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston, Oct 30-Nov 2.
2002. “The Danger of Ethiopian State-terrorism and Genocide against the Oromo in the Information and Technology Age: Lessons for other Africans,” The 45th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, December 5-8, Washington, DC.
2002. “The Oromo and their National Struggle in the Horn of Africa,” Lake Hills Presbyterian Church, Alcoa High Way Knoxville, October 13.
2002. “Oromummaa: Nationalism in Transition or in Stagnation?” The 2002 Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Howard University, July 27-28.
2002. “The State of Oromo Nationalism, Problems of the Oromo Struggle, and Strategies for the Liberation of Oromia,” Presented at the Regional Seminar of the Oromo Liberation Front, The University of Minnesota, April 12.
2002. “Oromian Cities in Ethiopia: The Quality of Life, Community Development, and Public Service,” Paper Presented at the Global Cities Symposium, The Department of Sociology, The University of Memphis, March 21, 2002.
2001. “Lessons for the Oromo from the Agency of ‘Old’ African Diaspora in the US,” The 44th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Houston, Texas, Nov. 15-18.
2001. “The Organizational Impact of Uneven Development of Oromo Nationalism,” The 2001 Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Minnesota University, Minneapolis, July 28-29.
2001. “The Process of State Formation in the Horn of Africa in Comparative Perspective,” (by invitation), Columbia University, April 3.
2001. “The Impacts of State Terrorism, Hidden Genocide, Global Powers on the Oromo in Ethiopia,” (by invitation), A Seminar on Causes and Solutions for Political and Economic and Human Rights Problems Facing the Oromo People within Regional and Global Context, Howard University, Washington, D.C., March 17.
2001. “Identifying and Solving the Internal Problems of the Oromo National Movement,” (by invitation), OLF Regional Conference, Washington, D.C., March 18.
2000. “The Impact of Ethiopian Colonialism on the Oromo Political Behavior,” The 14th Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, York University, Toronto/Ontario, Canada July 29-30.
2000. “The Intensification of attack on Oromo Peoplehood and Rights: The Violence of the Tigrayan Ethnocratic State and the Tyranny of Globalization,” The 43rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November 15-18.
1998. “Oromo Organizational problems in North America and Possible Solutions,” The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Oromo Studies Association, The University of Washington, Seattle, July 25-26.
1997. “US-Sponsored Ethiopian ‘Democracy’ and State Terrorism,” Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Oromo Studies Association, University of Minnesota, August 9-10; The 40th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, 13-16 November, Columbus, Ohio.
1997. “Oromia: The Struggle for National self-determination Revisited,” Paper Presented at the Seminar of the 23rd Congress of the Union of Oromo in North America, Washington, D.C., August 2-3, 1997 (by invitation).
1997. “The Oromo National Struggle and Global Capitalism,” The Seminar of the 23rd Annual Congress of the Union of Oromo Students in Europe, Berlin, Germany, July 18-20.
1997. Lectured and led the discussion on July’s People (South African racial relations) (Nadine Gorier) for the U.T.K. International Cultural and Literary Colloquy sponsored by the U.T.K. Division of Student Affairs, the Center for International Education and the College of Arts and Sciences, April 21.
1997. “Oromo Nationalism in the New Global Context,” The Symposium of the Union of Oromo in North America, Washington, D.C., April 19.
1997. “Ethno-nationalism of Indigenous People and the Global Modernizing Project,” The Symposium of World Congresses of 4th Action Research, Action Learning and Process-Management, and 8th Participatory Action-Research, Cartagena, Colombia, May 31 to June 5.
1996. “Nationalism and Liberation Politics in Oromia,” Tenth Annual Meeting of the Oromo Studies Association, Howard University, Washington, D.C., August 3-4.
1995. “Two National Liberation Movements Compared: Oromia and the Southern Sudan,” Thirty-eight Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 3-6.
1995. “Reinventing an Oromian State: A Theoretical Analysis,” Ninth Annual Meeting of the Oromo Studies Association, July 22-24, Washington, D.C.
1995. “The Condition of the Oromo Struggle in North America,” Ninth Annual Meeting of the Oromo Studies Association, July 22-24, Washington, D.C.
1995. “African American Nationalism and Development,” Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, April 6 -9, Atlanta, Georgia.
1994. “Toward a Theory of Cultural Reconstruction for Liberation and Development of Oromia,” Presidential Address at the 1994 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, the University of Toronto, Toronto, July 30-31.
1994. “The Imperial Interstate System in Action: Soviet and American Policies toward Ethiopia Compared,” Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, November 3-6.
1994. “The Current Status of the Oromo National Movement,” Twentieth Annual Congress of the Oromo Students in Europe, Berlin, Germany, July 15-17
1993. “Presidential Address for the 1993 Oromo Studies Annual Conference,” The 1993 Oromo Studies Association Conference, the University of Toronto, Ontario, July 31 to August 1.
1993. “Oromo Revolutionaries and Oromo National Power,” Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 31 to August 1.
1992. “Oromia: Political Change, Continuity and Liberation,” Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of African Studies Association, Nov. 20-23, Seattle, Washington.
1992. “Oromia and Ethiopia: The Politics of Change, Accommodation, and Conflict,” The Oromo Studies Conference, the University of Minnesota, August 1-2.
1991. “Oromo Music and Nationalism,” The Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto University, Toronto, Canada, August 3-4.
1989. “Oromia: From Resistance to Decolonization,” The African Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2-5.
1989. “Oromia: Nationalism and Revolution,” Oromo Conference, York University, Ontario, Canada, August 12-13.
1988. “Historical Discontinuity and Continuity: From the Gada Government to the Oromo Liberation Front,” Oromo Conference, Howard University, Washington, D. C., August 6-7.
1987. “The Process of Colonization and Decolonization of Oromia, 1868-1987: Contradictions in the Incorporation of the Horn of Africa into the world economy,” The Annual Conference of Stanford-Berkeley Joint Center for African Studies, Stanford University, May 8.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION
1994. “Oromia: Cultural Reconstruction for Liberation and Development,” President of Oromo Studies Association, the 1994 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, the University of Toronto, Toronto, July 30-31.
1993. “Resource Mobilization for Oromian self-determination,” President of the Oromo Studies Association, the 1993 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, the University of Toronto, July 31 to August 1.
PANEL ORGANIZATION
2013. “Revisiting and Reviving the Best Elements of Gadaa For Developing Oromummaa,” The 2013 Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Howard University, Washington, DC, August 3 and 4.
2013. “Oromummaa in Theory and Action,” The 2013 Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Howard University, Washington, DC, August 3 and 4.
2013. “Issues of Crises in Leadership and Organizational Capacity Building in the Oromo National Movement,” The 2013 Oromo Studies Mid-Year Conference, The University of Georgia, Atlanta, March 16.
2012. “The Legacy of Ethiopian Colonialism and Mental Liberation,” The 2012 Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, the University Minnesota, Minneapolis, July 14-15.
2011. “The Impact of the Oromo Studies Association on Oromo Politics and Society,” The Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 24-26.
2010. “Consensus Building in the Oromo National Movement,” The Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, Howard University, Washington, DC, July 28-29.
2007. “Beyond Conflict and War in the Horn of Africa: Possible Alternative Solutions,” The 2007 Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, October 18-23, New York, New York
2007. “Forming and Building State in the 21st Century Oromia,” The 2007 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 28-29.
2006. “The Economy of Oromia: A Point of Departure,” The 2006 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, July 29-30.
2005. “The Struggle for Democracy and Social Justice in Northeast Africa: The Case of Oromos,” The Spring 2005 SERSAS Conference, Maryville College, September 30-October 1.
2003. “Rethinking the State in the Horn of Africa,” The 2003 African Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston, Oct 30-Nov 2
2003. “Toward Developing a National Political Culture: Openness and a Civil Discourse among g Oromo Elites,” The 2003 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, August 2-3, Washington, D.C., Howard University.
2002. Ethiopian Political Slavery in the Information and Technology Age,” the 45th Annual Meetingthe African Studies Association, December 5-8, Washington, DC.
2001. “Ideological and Organizational Challenges of the Oromo Movement in a Global Context,” The 15th Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, University of Minnesota, July 28-29.
1999. “Which Way Oromia?” The 13th Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Georgia State University, Atlanta, July 28-29.
1996. ‘State Formation in the 21st Century Oromia,” Tenth Annual Meeting of the Oromo Studies Association, Howard University, Washington, D.C., August 3-4.
1994. “Nationalism and Political Discourse,” The Eighth Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Toronto, Ontario
1992. “Change and Continuity in the Oromo National Movement,” Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Seattle, Washington, Nov. 15.
COLLOQUIA AND WORKSHOPS
2003. The panel discussion on the video series, Race: the Power of an Illusion, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
1996. “Globalization and Multiculturalism,” session leader, Workshop for social Science Teachers, The University of Tennessee, Department of Sociology, April 20.
1995. “Oromo Nationalism,” The Ninth Annual Meeting of the Oromo Studies Association, July 22-24, Washington, D.C.
1995. “The Oromo Cultural Movement: A New Paradigm in the Oromo National Struggle,” The Oromo Community in Atlanta, Georgia, April 29.
1993. “Racial and Ethnic Contradictions in the Modern World,” Church Street United Methodist Church, January 3, Knoxville.
1993. “African American Nationalism Revisited,” Urban League, February 23, Knoxville.
1992. “Oromia: A Nation in Search of Statehood,” The Oromo Community in Atlanta, Georgia, April 18.
1992. “African American Nationalism, Development and Afrocentricity,” Sponsored by the Department of Sociology and the African and African American Studies Program, April 15, U.T.K.
1991. “Continuity and Change in African Politics,” African Week, prepared by The University of Tennessee African Students Association, UTK.
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Developed two new courses in African Studies on ancient African Civilizations.
PREVIOUS TEACHING AND RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
1990-91. Assistant Professor. Clinton Community College, Plattsburgh, New York; courses: Introduction to Sociology; Problems in Crimes and Deviance; Problems of the Family; Social Problems; and Cultural Anthropology.
1990-91. Adjunct Professor. State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Courses: Social Stratification, and Introduction to Sociology.
1989-90. Visiting Assistant Professor. Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York. Courses: Global Racial and Ethnic Relations; Deviant Behavior; the Criminal Justice System; Social Movement in the African American Community; Urban Sociology; and Contemporary Social Issues.
1985. Research Assistant. State University of New York at Binghamton. Collected data on the political economy of South Africa for Professor Martin Murray.
1983-85. Research Assistant. University of California, Davis. Assisted Professor Dean MacCannell on empirical studies of the structure of California agriculture; developed social indicators and collected data on immigrant agricultural laborers in northern California; assisted the director on various research projects, including programmatic and demographic responses to officially expected levels of nuclear attack on 23 large American cities by the former USSR.
1978-80. Research Sociologist. Planning, Evaluation and Budget Section, Arssi Rural Development Project, Oromia. Prepared interview guide; conducted research and participated in interviewing; gathered data wrote final reports and provided recommendations for the formulation of development policies. Financed by the Swedish International Development Agency.
1978-80. Regional Development Officer and Teacher. The Arssi Rural Development Project, Oromia, Ethiopia; managed development activities and taught development workers, planned and formulated development policies, and prepared a budget.
1977. Research Assistant. Socio-economic Study and Implementation Group of Forestry and Wildlife Development Authority, Oromia.
1976-77. Teacher. Horst Spingies High School, the Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Oromia (Ethiopia). Courses: History, English and Geography.