Today, I would like to particularly look at revolutionary musical artists from two Oromo music bands that formed in the early 1990s when the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) joined the transitional government of Ethiopia. Called the Hawwisoo Caffee Gada Band and the Bilisumma Band, these bands and their artists were pushing forth through their music the urgent need for national self-determination, freedom, and democracy for the Oromo people. Within these bands, songwriters, poets, instrumentalists, musicians, and vocalists came together to ...