Drought-Affected Northern Kenya

By Abdulkadir Gumi*

Thousands of members of our communities in Northern Kenya are at risk from drought. Join us now to save their life! TOGETHER WE CAN BRING A LITTLE CHANGE TO OUR PEOPLE.

Dear Northern Kenyan friends, Oromo Communities, Youths and friends in Diaspora,

This is an appeal to your conscience and hearts to help thousands of children and families suffering in Kenya’s marginalized region, where our people live in desperate situation. If the rich is bailed out of their malpractices, we have a moral duty to rescue our own poor with what God has given to us.

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By Abdulkadir Gumi*

THEY are people on this horizon who struggle to make their voices heard, but the world is likely to hear more and more about them. If they all belonged to one nation, it would be a fair size, as big as France or Mali. Yet by definition, we do not know to which country they belong to – Kenya or Abyssinia. They are the world’s growing band of stateless people starting from the far Oromia and Northern Kenya who have no citizenship rights, and are often unable to claim those rights that states can provide.

Pure definitions of Stateless in this world are those people without an effective nationality, and suffer serious economic and social discrimination. Stateless people encounter severe hardships, including the inability to obtain lawful employment, to own property, and to maintain their daily livelihood. Stateless people lack a political voice of their own.

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By Abdulkadir Gumi*

Men, women, and children throughout Oromoland repeat the slogan of Oromo Nationalism: “Oromtich sabboona and Oromtitti Sabbontuu.” The wind of change blowing through the heart of all Oromo – old and young – is no ordinary wind. It is a raging hurricane against which the older cannot stand.

The greater millions of Oromo people in Africa and Diaspora have grown impatient of being hewers of wood and drawers of water, and they are rebelling against the false politics of empires and dictatorships that prevail and create some to be menial of others. In Oromia political movements, Oromo people have been divided into many political movements – some fighting on the slogan of “self-determination” and “Bilisumma” in Oromo word.

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