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    Gadaa (Oromo: Gadaa; literally: era) is the indigenous system of governance used by the Oromos in Ethiopia and northern Kenya. It is also practiced by...
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    Oromo people (section Gadaa)
    Oromo people traditionally used the gadaa system as the primary form of governance. A leader is elected by the gadaa system and their term lasts eight years...
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    the same name, Boorana. The Boorana people are notable for practicing the Gadaa system without interruption. Through the Gadha system, the Boranas are believed...
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  • well-developed age-grade system known as the Gadaa System. [Another example is that of the Maasai] Gadaa through history came to organize social life...
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    Abdulkariem Ibrahim Hamid, more commonly known by his nom de guerre Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa, was an Ethiopian guerrilla commander and one of the first leaders of the...
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    Oromo forefathers, in the time of Gadaa Melbaa in Mormor, Oromia. The auspicious day on which this last Mormor Day of Gadaa Melbaa - the Dark Time of starvation...
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  • support the democratic Gadaa system of the Oromo. The Qaalluu/Qaalliti have the power to give or withhold blessings to the Gadaa leadership as they see...
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    of his contributions to Oromo literature, he was given an honorary name 'Gadaa'.[citation needed] Gebreab worked as a journalist before becoming a full...
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    homelands. Actual settlement of new territories would not begin until the Gadaa of Meslé. According to Bahrey, the earliest Oromo expansion occurred under...
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  • sets having a judicial function, for example. The Oromo people and their Gadaa System are also another good example of a society whose social organization...
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    which they built a fort at Mega. The Abba Gadaa of Borena, Addi Doyyo, with the advice of the local Gadaa assembly decided submit to Fitawrari Habte...
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    Ethiopia Haile Fida Jawar Mohammed – Activist and member of OFC Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa Junedin Sado Kuma Demeksa Ketema Yifru Lemma Megersa – Ethiopian Minister...
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    Chief, Sheikh Abdulkarim Ibrahim Hamid, otherwise known as Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa. The group was politically and militarily based in eastern Ethiopia, controlling...
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    previously released singles as well as new songs, including the hit "Ya Gadaa" which was shot in Romania with the director Joe Bou Eid El Zoghbi was the...
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    society welfare through prayer and sacrifice. The Gadaa system has series of disciplinary rules where Gadaa officials are appointed in every eight years to...
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    attempt by the ENLF to enter the country was directed by Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa, but it failed when Somali security forces tracked down the militants and...
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    torture, mass killings, and large-scale slavery) during several successive Gadaa conquests led by Aba Gedas of territories located north of Genale river...
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  • State Ministry for Culture and Tourism Corruption Scandal - Gadaa.com Oduu – News". Gadaa.com. Retrieved 2010-11-01. "Archived copy". Archived from the...
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    carried a boku (usually connected with the abba boku, or headman of the Oromo Gadaa system) which when placed on the ground would cause the earth to tremble...
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  • Gadaa system with Tulama whose center (chaffe) was south of present-day Addis Ababa. But in the late 16th century, Macha established their own Gadaa with...
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  • in Siraha District, Nepal Gadha (album), a 1998 album by Chandrabindoo Gadaa, an Oromo self-governance system Garha/GADA, a Jain caste of India Gada...
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    com/world/2023/05/21/ethiopia-oromiya-oromo-amhara/ [bare URL] "News: Members of Karrayyu Gadaa leadership killed, several others missing amid conflicting narratives in...
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    Retrieved 26 December 2020. "The Birth of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF)". Gadaa. 2010. Archived from the original on 1 September 2013. Retrieved 17 December...
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  • 27 Tsehay Bank https://tsehaybank.com.et/ 2022 76 TSCPETAA 932 (334) 28 Gadaa Bank SC https://gadaabank.com.et/ 2022 60 GDAAETAA 808 (84) 29 Amhara Bank...
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    Mohammed: Childhood, Faith, Ethics, Society". Facebook. "Oromo | Oromia | Gadaa.com-FinfinneTribune". Archived from the original on 26 August 2020. Retrieved...
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    Arsi Oromo. Arsi Oromo were largely independent and ruling under their own Gadaa Republic until about the 19th century. The Arsi Oromo under their leader...
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    Needana, Ninu Nammi Manedana" - Rushyendramani "Neede Baaramu Gadaa Deva Todu Needa Neeve Gadaa" - Nagayya "Pove Kadali Palugaki, Popove" - Rushyendramanii...
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    story builds, the tambura becomes a prop, sometimes to personify Bhima's 'gadaa' mace, or Arjun's bow or chariot, or the hair of queen Draupadi or Dushasan...
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    Retrieved 2017-06-01. "::The Birth of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF)::". www.gadaa.com. Archived from the original on 2017-06-29. Retrieved 2017-06-01. MarketScreener...
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  • "Ethiopia's State Ministry for Culture and Tourism Corruption Scandal". Gadaa.com. 2009-03-14. Retrieved 2011-04-02. "Archived copy". Archived from the...
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