Zalaalam Abarra’s sizable collection entitled simply Walaloota (Poems)
is an uplifting encounter with high order poetry. The poems are in
Oromo, a language that over its millennial existence in the Horn of
Africa, has produced, and continues to produce, significant epic,
heroic, ribald, elegiac, amorous and mystical poetry as well as rowdy
limericks, rambunctious erotic couplets, and superbly bawdy quatrains.
A re-awakening of the need for cultural and political differentiation
has also given rise to verse devoted to promoting Oromo nationalism..
Understanding what is meant by the "Qubee generation" is not complex.
Simply, the "Qubee Generation" is a new generation in the Oromo
struggle that has came into being since 1991 with the adaptation of
Qubee, a Latin alphabet, as Oromo's writing script and thereafter...