Kwame Nkrumah’s Statue Unveiled In Addis Ababa

January 29, 2012 (Peace FM Online) – President John Evans Atta Mills at the weekend unveiled the statue of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President at the forecourt of the new African Union (AU) building in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Can Oromummaa and Ethiopianism be Reconciled?
By Asafa Jalata | January 14, 2012

This paper critically examines how the duality inherent in the concept of Ethiopianism shifts back and forth between claims of a “Semitic” identity when appealing to the White, Christian, racist/ethnocentric, occidental hegemonic power center and claims of an African identity when cultivating the support of sub-Saharan Africans and the African diaspora while, at the same time, ruthlessly suppressing or destroying the history and culture of non-Semitic Africans of the various colonized nations, such as Oromos.

Violence engulfed the City of Naqamte in a continued Students Peaceful Demonstration

By Qeerroo

January 11, 2012 Naqamte (qeerroo) – The ongoing University and high school students’ revolution is shaking the city of Naqamte after the students committed themselves for days of sit-in within Wollega University Campus.