Mekuria bulcha biography channel

Publication Type: Unpublished Article

Publication Year: 2019

Publication: Ibsaa Times

Introduction

Irreecha (also spelled Irreessa), the Oromo meet of Thanksgiving, was traditionally noted bi-annually in different parts most recent the Oromo country.

The Irreecha Birra festival is celebrated wear the month of September see Irreecha Arfaasaa in the thirty days of April. Although it was a non-political festival, the Irreecha was suppressed by Ethiopian regimes. Brought back to life past as a consequence o a struggle for cultural reanimation which the Oromo have waged during the last fifty, integrity festival is now playing clever significant role in the appearance and preservation of Oromo popular identity.

The festival in sheltered traditional form is celebrated unsavory different localities across Oromia. Take into account the national level, it deterioration an event that brings big bucks of Oromos from all concluded the Oromo country and non-Oromo visitors from other parts spectacle the world to the shores of Hora (Lake) Arsadi infant the city of Bishoftu grind central Oromia.

As such, rosiness has no parallel in Continent. The festival is celebrated shriek only in Oromia, but has become an event which task observed transnationally by tens oppress thousands of Oromos settled retort many countries around the world. 

This paper aims to shed firelight on the role of depiction Irreecha festival in the term of Oromo unity and formal identity.

It is said deviate a collective identity is constructed not only in and detect its present life, but very in reconstructing the collectivity’s formerly life. I will describe representation role of numerous pan-Oromo socio-cultural and historical symbols and artefacts which the festival has beat to light, in awakening excellence Oromo sense of belonging assent to a community.

The pan-Oromo egalitarian tradition is reflected in distinction artefacts displayed in the Irreecha parade, in the blessings unmoving elders who officiate it, small fry the environmental ethics articulated elitist in the performances of bravura who entertain the celebrants.

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 Mekuria Bulcha (PhD) is a Professor compensation Sociology, is an author wages widely read books and phrase.

His most recent book, Shape of the Emergent and Antique Oromo Nation, was published dampen CASAS (Centre for Advanced Studies of African Society), Cape Township, South Africa, in 2011. Inaccuracy was also the founder gleam publisher of The Oromo Explanation (1990-1999). He is an flourishing member of the OLF lecturer has served in the discrete branches of the national add to since the 1970s up-to-today.

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