Oromia: The Urgency of Building Oromo National Consensus
The following was presented at the 2010 OSA Annual Conference, Howard University, Washington, DC, July 31-August 1. To read it in a PowerPoint format, please click here.
By Professor Asafa Jalata*
INTRODUCTION
1) What should be done to overcome the politics of fragmentation and internal crises in the Oromo national movement?
2) What are some external and internal factors that have hampered the development of the Oromo national consensus?
3) What should Oromo activists and political leaders and their organizations do to overcome their political ineptness and ideological and political weaknesses to develop a national declaration?
4) What are the roles of all Oromo nationalists and the public in building the Oromo national consensus?


