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AFAAN OROMO CURRICULUM SHORT-CUT IN MAQII, BOTEE, BUSHOOFTUU

(Oromedia, 20 March 2012) In some  cities of Oromia Afaan Oromoo classes are substituted by Amharic languages  by dividing the school system into three categories as a means of abridging the rights.

According to our sources from Oromia, the Ethiopian government thorough its ministry of education reversed part of the constitutional rights of the Oromo people under its rule in many ways.

Among these infringements on the democratic and human rights of the Oromo people as seen recently perpetrated on them by the regime is the infringements on the very gains of the constitution of the country that allows nations and nationalities to exercise the right to read and wright in their mother-tongue at least atelementary school education level. But those rights are daily abridged by cutting on curriculum in areas ceded to other nations and nationalities, and now being extended to even cities in Oromia regional state proper. The recent abridgements of rights are imposed on two cities in central Oromia: Mekii and Bishoftu.

Meki and Botee are the capital cities of Dugda and Bora districts of JIILLE Oromos mainly and JIDDA, SODDO, and ARSII Oromos.
BUSHOOFTUU is the capital city of ADAA district that is home to the ADAA, JIDDA, LIIBAN, GAJJA, ABBICHUU, and SOODDO Oromos mainly. These two/three cities are deprived of the AFAAN OROMOO classes by dividing the school system into three categories as a means of abridging the rights:
1. Public schools can offer Afaan Oromo only from 8:00 am -12:00 midday if teachers are available and students registered for classes as their preference, but NOT as a MANDATORY regional national state language of orientation;
2. Private schools including religious based schools do not offer Afaan Oromo classes as a subject as well as as a language of regional curricular language of instruction;
3.All public school classes are offered in Amharic from 2:00 pm -last hours including evening classes.
4. Never have been implemented is the “Oromo” (Oromo wereda) district located between Darraa and Tach Bete wereda of Marrehaa-Bete Awurajja. Residents of this district, who are Oromos but lost their mother tongue as a result of long years of repression have demanded their district be included to Darra and be able for their children to go to schools where Afaan Oromo is offered. Their demands have never received attention by the regional state of Amaaraa and the central government.
Other cities soon to be given a chartered city status, ADAAMAA and SHAASHAAMANNE are under threat.
The Oromia regional state plea to reinstate Afaan Oromo as a language of instruction to this cities has been turned down by the central government via its arm-the ministry of education. Furthermore, those who attend Afaan Oromo classes in the early morning classes are discouraged and bullied at schools and on their way to and back home from.school.

 

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  1. HIREE
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    Garuu yo beelawe agabu hin buluu
    Caccabseeti nyaata lafe hin hanbisuu
    Namni olla isaa halkan ciise hin rafuu
    Hedduu ni yaaddawaa nagaya hinqabuu
    Maqaan koo saroobbatee bulaa
    Duraan natti fakkaatte Namaa
    Ammaan si bare ati waraabessaa
    Nyaatte hin quuftu haadha garaa
    Maallaqa maallaqa jettee na darartaa
    Hanga yoomiin siif guura doolaaraa
    Kaniin dur siif guure sheena natti tahaa
    Kabajaa naaf dhabdee ana arrabsitaa
    Mee na dhagahii sittan himaa
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    Amalli kee natti jijjiiramee
    Erga biyya dhaqxee dhuftee
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    Qabeenya hin qabduu harkiiniis si duwwaa
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    Biyyaahiin si baasa jette natti waakkattee
    Si ati yaa urunguu maal of seetee
    Siitu na Uummate moo ana tolfattee
    Of yaadadhu gadi galoo saree
    Haya……galatuma kiyyaa
    Yaa uruguu namaa
    Mee yaadadhu yaa jeedalloo
    Garaa guutuuf isa qanqalloo
    Hiree arkachuuf maallaqa kafalee
    Aniis bar hin hannee ka ati liqimsitee
    Kumaa sadii guutuukaniin sitti kennee
    Bar riyaalaa mitii doolaaraa ka nyaattee
    Anaa fii warri kook an biraa agabnee
    Baga irraanfatte kan koo duruu dhumee
    Aniis ka na dhibe kan namarraa guurree
    suuta natti Maaliif himnee
    uruguu yo hireen dhabmtee
    duraan eessa fiduuf kaatee
    Rabbi biraahii mo ameerka gaayattee
    Obaamaa si kenne gurguri siin je’ee
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    an kanuma siif je’ee ergamee
    akka fedhii teetii hunduma hojjadhee
    waan feete dubbattaa siitu na tolfatee
    koominiitiis sumaatu jaarratee
    manguddoo tolfatee siitu bobbaafatee
    warra nama quncaasuun beekkamee
    har’a filattee maallaqa guuruuf ergattee
    maali badiin tiyya narratti bobbaatee
    bara lama dura miilaan lafa deemtaa
    maallaqa siif guuree sossobee hawaasaa
    amma natti boonte siif bite konkolaataa
    jaarsa dhalataa afrikkaa gurrachaa
    amma jijjiirattee isa nama diimaa
    mana siif ijaaree isa fooqii gubbaa
    meeshaallee bite hunduma siif guutee
    qabeenya horattee har’a nama taatee
    ati hin hojjannee hawaasarra guurree
    ofitti kijibdee kan kee si fakkaatee
    yaa urunguu funaantuu saree
    daranuu kan heddu na aarsee
    oromoo arrabsuu kee
    bara ati nama irraa dhalattee
    abbaan keen miseensa wayyaanee
    of qorqttee amaara moo tigree
    nama hin beekne sobi an si baree
    akaakoon hambaa sirnaa dabree
    dafiiti deebisi kan guurte doolaaraa
    an dhammadhe boodde ni salphattaa
    maallaqni oromoo way akka itti mi’aawuu
    hoggaaniif nyaatanii ittiin bashannantuu
    heddu nama tola dafee dhuma garuu
    haya… ati humaa hin taanee
    ofille arrabsee saba koo xiqqeessee
    siitu na tolfatee nallee bobbaaftee
    maallaqa hawaasatiis guurutti na ergee
    garaan kee hallayyaa bililee
    ati quuftee hin beeytuu ya saree
    of kabaji naamusni birillee
    lafatti yo kufe ni caba ammallee
    si gahee kan koo dhaamsii
    doolaaraan si kenne harkattii
    lakkoofte fudhatte naa deebisii
    daddafi Oolchitee hin bulchinii
    funyaaniin na haa baatu hireen teetii
    hireen too harka rabbi guddaa jirtii
    galmee teetiin balleessa kan jettuu
    yo feetiis ciccirii libaanata aarfadhuu
    awrooppa,ameerikaan ati na geessituu
    biyya magarriisa oromiyaa hin geessuu
    waaqni … karkarrotti si jijjiiruu
    ulfi kee jaldeessa ta’ee ha dhalatuu
    haqni oromoo Abadan hin dhokatuu
    kan ati nyaatte funyaaniin ha bahuu
    dhalti kee haa goguu
    yaa saree urunguu
    haa …wilii nagayni kee hin jiruu
    haqni galu hin Ooluu
    hangamillee turuu
    galanni kee ibidda ha tahuu
    dur waa nama hin abaaruu
    garaatu na gubata ogaan yayyaadadhuu
    kanaafiin dubadhee
    nahin ajaa’ibinaa numaan mufadhee
    hedduun dagamee saamamee
    goyyoomeen harka duwwa hafee
    dhiifama isin gaadhee
    garuu akka koo isin akka hin taanee
    gocha badaa narratti raawwatamee
    kana anumaa of godhee
    oromoo akka hin dagamnee
    kuno an isiniif dhaamee !!!

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