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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. thanks to Mario I Aguilar;Writter of oromo book;BEING OROMO IN KENYA!!!By SITOTA GELANFirst of all I would like to thank the writter of this book very much!In ethiopian; Oromo people used to have no author among their own people/author; becasue if oromo auther even try to write about his/her people;Oromo; the coloniser( abyssinians) imprison;torture; and kill him and enforce him/her to leave his own country;Oromia; which is still under takingby these colonisers as usual!Even; the wasso oromo whom this book talking about is pulled out by abyssinians coloniser to kenya fom the edge of todays ethiopia on the border of Borena of ethiopia; they used to have their own place in today's oromia at the edge;thanks to diaspora and some home oromo auther or scholars or Oromo narratives; the oromo history; that was hiddered not to be written by nobody from abyssinians;were/ are digged/digging out with interesting history about oromo which was written by Habasha elites falsefully!!I can say author of this book had had full information with a little bit lack of transilation on this oromo tribe and written it well; but on writting some word of oromo; some misspelling is seen at many place-in oromo launguage;missing one letter from one word means completely got another meaning or meaningless than mean what the writter tried to say!!eg. 'deda' is supposed to be writtten as 'dheeda' which means grass land where cows or ships are renderd!!Here; i feel that ;even not all oromos can spell out oromo words correctly may be beacsue of qubee oromo or oromo scipt started most recent two decades ago;what i want to say is since such research is very usefull for ormo generation the transilators have to be well educated those who know QUBEE OROMO-when i say this i am not saying auther have to look for transilator from some where out of that tribe where the research is to be taken-this may have great problem in that the transilator came from some where may not know the culture of that tribe- so it is better to select more educated people among this/any society the research is is about to be taken based on some specific criterea dicussing with oromo scholars!!!The other thing I undrastand form this book is that Waso Oromo Borena people is really appreciable in that they have been sruggling in surviving culture to pass it to their next generation- thanks to them very much for doing that. On the other hand; there is some bad culture among this society that oromo scholars and other oromos have to help them to get out of it in teaching bad side and good side of this culture.eg. Slaughtering many animals in a fews weeks to provide community meal and retual performance!! it doesnot matter if they slaughter one or two and provide ritual or community performance to celebrate whatever they want; to make relationship among themselves; but how they do and for what they do is extravance in both wealth and time that left or may leave them as poor later or sooner!!Eventhough this oromo are trying to hold and pass culture to generation; one can undrastand from this book that somalis are trying this wasso oromo people to loss their idnetity and culture adopting/insiminating their own culture!!This is the most serious issue all oromo from all corners and new educated generation of this Wasso Oromo Borena of Kenya(more; eventhough this new gereation already started to enfluence to reserve this culture)have to work on to keep the culture they are loosing as a result of Somali tribe! Eg. majority of this oromo tribes were christians- but because of the enfluence of this somali people; almost all of this tribe is coverted to muslim indirectly forcefully with out the interest of this people; because of social enfluence which may be to get power(as it is must to be muslim even to lead one manyatta) around there or to get benefit from this somali muslim community except younger ones those are educated and educating- so what I want to say is that all oromos have to help these oromo in extending education to know themselves like the new comers/generations those who are refusing to accept outside of their culture to tackle these problem!! Hopefully it will be changed and the let edcuated youngesters are coming out!!Lastly I would like to extend my gratitude to the writer of this book once again for such interesting research not only from me; but also from all 45 million overwelming majority of oromo people in the Horn of Africa who has had long year thirsty to see their history written unbiased!!!!!Thank you very much!!!! Sitota Gelan_USA!!!3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Mario I.aguilarBy A CustomerMario I. Aguilar is one of the best Antropologists who specialised on African Studies in general and on the Oromo People in particular."Being Oromo in Kenya" is a book on first hand experience. This is a work of a man who devoted his life to make the entire culture; tradition; and life's philosophy of the Oromo People known to the world at large. I can only recomend you to read this book.GB