A Jalata
Biographic Data
| ID | 9524 |
|---|---|
| NAME | A Jalata |
| GIVEN NAMES | A |
| FAMILY NAME | Jalata |
| SIGNATURE | JALATA A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5558-5873 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Oromo Liberation Front and its Long Journey
This article identifies and examines several interrelated issues concerning the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF), which has struggled to liberate Oromo society from Abyssinian/Ethiopian settler colonialism and its authoritarian-terrorist state for almost a half-century. These issues include the formation of the front, its objectives, accomplishments, and obstacles, the emergence of the Abiy Ahmed government, and the consolidation and expansion of the…
The Neo- Nafxanya Government of Abiy Ahmed, Terrorism, and Gross Human Rights Violations in Oromia and Ethiopia
The paper explains how the neo-nafxanaya government of Abiy Ahmed has been trying to restore the Ethiopian (Amhara) settler colonial institutions by establishing military command posts and terrorizing and committing genocide on the Oromo people since 2018. The regime has mobilized the “federal” and regional military and security forces, the Eritrean and Amharatroops, and the paramilitary Amhara Fanno to fight with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLF-O…
Baro Tumsa's contributions to the Oromo national movement
The article examines the political and intellectual contributions of Baro Tumsa in forming the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and developing the Oromo national movement. After the Haile Selassie government banned the Macha-Tulama Self-Help Association (MTA) in 1967 and killed or imprisoned its prominent leaders and members, Baro played a central role in the Oromo national struggle facilitating the birth of the OLF. This organization has been mobili…
Reimagining Global Social Movements in the Perspective of Egalitarian Democracy
The analysis starts by offering a critique of the existing social movement literature and by suggesting the integration of critical theories of knowledge with theories and wisdom of indigenous peoples in order to develop an alternative knowledge of critical thinking and scholarship in social movement studies. It also proposes ideas about the need to democratize knowledge for better accounting for social movement studies, including that of indigen…
Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization
Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization considers terrorism as an aspect of the capitalist world system for almost five centuries. Jalata's research reveals that terrorism can emerge from abov
English Colonial Terrorism, Genocide, and Indigenous Australians
With the expansion of the European-dominated capitalist world system to the Australian continent in the late eighteenth century, English settlers practiced terror and genocide on indigenous Australians to take over their homeland. These crimes against humanity continued into the nineteenth century until indigenous peoples were almost destroyed, and the ownership of their land was entirely transferred to the English colonial settlers and their des…
Theorizing Modern Society as an Inverted Reality
The triple causes of African underdevelopment
The paper attempts to inform Africans and the world at large of the triple evils of colonial capitalism, state terrorism, and racism and of different forms of African resistance in order to search for new ways of implementing universal human rights laws and the rights of indigenous people. Most indigenous Africans are immensely underdeveloped and have suffered for more than five centuries because of these triple evils that have been imposed on th…
The Impacts of Terrorism and Capitalist Incorporation on Indigenous Americans
This article demonstrates the connections between terrorism, colonial state formation, and the development of the capitalist world system, or globalization, exploring the consequences of colonial terrorism on indigenous American peoples. First, the piece introduces the central argument and conceptualizes and theorizes terrorism. Second, it examines the structural aspects of colonial terrorism by connecting it to specific colonial policies and pra…
Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System
This paper explores the major consequences of the expansion of the European-dominated capitalist world system, colonial terrorism, and continued subjugation for indigenous Americans, Australians, and Africans between the late fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Western powers as well as most of the descendants of European colonialists in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and in Africa and their regional and local collaborators deny or forget or mi…
The Impacts of English Colonial Terrorism and Genocide on Indigenous/Black Australians
This article critically explores the essence of colonial terrorism and its consequences on the indigenous people of Australia during their colonization and incorporation into the European-dominated racialized capitalist world system in the late 18th century. It uses multidimensional, comparative methods, and critical approaches to explain the dynamic interplay among social structures, human agency, and terror to explain the connection between ter…
The Oromo, Gadaa/Siqqee Democracy and the Liberation of Ethiopian Colonial Subjects
This paper explores the potential role of the Gadaa/Siqqee system of Oromo democracy in the development of a democratic multinational liberation movement of the colonized nations within the Ethiopian Empire in order to dismantle the Tigrayan-led Ethiopian terrorist government and replace it with a sovereign multinational democratic state in the Horn of Africa based on the principles of indigenous democracy. After a brief introduction, this study …
Conceptualizing and Theorizing Terrorism in the Historical and Global Context
This article defines and theorizes terrorism by focusing on five important and central issues: lack of balance in current terrorism studies, blurred boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate violence of state and non-state actors, the multiplicity and complexity of terrorism, terrorism as a contested and understudied aspect of the modern world system, and terrorism in the name of money, God, and civilization. It also emphasizes the significa…
Being in and out of Africa
This article critically examines how the duality inherent in the concept of Ethiopianism shifts back and forth between claims of a “Semitic” identity when appealing to the White, Christian, ethnocentric, occidental hegemonic power center and claims of an African identity when cultivating the support of sub-Saharan Africans and the African diaspora while, at the same time, ruthlessly suppressing the history and culture of non-Semitic Africans of t…
Struggling for social justice in the capitalist world system
This article identifies and examines the processes through which the social justice movements of African Americans in the US, Oromos in Ethiopia, and Southern and Western Sudanese in Sudan emerged, and the successes and failures of these movements in a global and comparative perspective. It specifically explores four interrelated issues. First, the paper deals with some theoretical and methodological insights. Second, the piece explains how the r…
State Terrorism and Globalization
This article compares the essence and effects of Ethiopian and Sudanese state terrorism by focusing on the commonalities between the two states. These peripheral African states have used global and regional connections and state terrorism as political tools for creating and maintaining the confluence of identity, religion, and political power. Ethiopia primarily depends on the West, and Sudan on the Middle East, since Christianity and Islam are t…
Fighting against the Injustice of the State and Globalization
Fighting against the Injustice of the State and Globalization
Introduction The Development of Black Nationalism The Oromo National Movement The Impact of U.S. Foreign Policy on the Oromo National Struggle Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements Beyond Nationalism: The Challenges of a Revolutionary Multicultural Democracy
Revisiting the Black Struggle
This article critically examines the cumulative successes and failures of the African American struggle for liberation and equality, and it hints at the future direction of the Black movement in the United States. Specifically, it demonstrates how the Black movement legally dismantled direct institutional racism and why it failed to eliminate indirect institutional racism. This article also explains why the objectives of cultural self-determinati…
Fighting against the Injustice of the State and Globalization
Race and Ethnicity in East Africa (review)
Forster, Peter G., Michael Hitchcock, and Francis F. Lyimo. 2000. Race and Ethnicity in East Africa. New York and London: MacMillan Press Ltd. & St. Martin's Press, Inc. 181 pp
Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse
Asafa Jalata (ed.), Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: the search for freedom and democracy. Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press1998, 313 pp., US24.95, ISBN 1 56902 066 3 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 2
Ethno‐nationalism and the global ‘modernising’ project
This article analyses the features and problems of ethno‐nationalism in the global context. The existing bodies of theories and literature on ethno‐nationalism mainly reflect the views and interests of the colonising ethno‐nations and their states at the cost of the dominated ethno‐nations. This preliminary study shows the inadequacy of information, knowledge and theory in the study of nationalism by questioning the validity of the global ‘modern…
Being and Becoming Oromo
Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse
The Struggle for Knowledge
Taking the Oromo as historical actors, the emergent Oromo studies identify some deficiencies of "Ethiopian studies" that primarily focus on the Amhara and Tigray ethnic groups and their rulers, and ignore the history of the Oromo people. Many Ethiopian and Ethiopianist scholars do not recognize the positive cultural achievements of this people. As Shack (1994, 642) notes, "The lack of critical scholarship has inadvertently distorted the human ach…
Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse
State Terrorism and Globalization
This article compares the essence and effects of Ethiopian and Sudanese state terrorism by focusing on the commonalities between the two states. These peripheral African states have used global and regional connections and state terrorism as political tools for creating and maintaining the confluence of identity, religion, and political power. Ethiopia primarily depends on the West, and Sudan on the Middle East, since Christianity and Islam are t…
Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System
This paper explores the major consequences of the expansion of the European-dominated capitalist world system, colonial terrorism, and continued subjugation for indigenous Americans, Australians, and Africans between the late fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Western powers as well as most of the descendants of European colonialists in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and in Africa and their regional and local collaborators deny or forget or mi…
Fighting against the Injustice of the State and Globalization
Introduction The Development of Black Nationalism The Oromo National Movement The Impact of U.S. Foreign Policy on the Oromo National Struggle Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements Beyond Nationalism: The Challenges of a Revolutionary Multicultural Democracy
Being and Becoming Oromo
The Oromo, Gadaa/Siqqee Democracy and the Liberation of Ethiopian Colonial Subjects
This paper explores the potential role of the Gadaa/Siqqee system of Oromo democracy in the development of a democratic multinational liberation movement of the colonized nations within the Ethiopian Empire in order to dismantle the Tigrayan-led Ethiopian terrorist government and replace it with a sovereign multinational democratic state in the Horn of Africa based on the principles of indigenous democracy. After a brief introduction, this study …
Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse
Asafa Jalata (ed.), Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: the search for freedom and democracy. Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press1998, 313 pp., US24.95, ISBN 1 56902 066 3 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 2
Conceptualizing and Theorizing Terrorism in the Historical and Global Context
This article defines and theorizes terrorism by focusing on five important and central issues: lack of balance in current terrorism studies, blurred boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate violence of state and non-state actors, the multiplicity and complexity of terrorism, terrorism as a contested and understudied aspect of the modern world system, and terrorism in the name of money, God, and civilization. It also emphasizes the significa…
Ethno‐nationalism and the global ‘modernising’ project
This article analyses the features and problems of ethno‐nationalism in the global context. The existing bodies of theories and literature on ethno‐nationalism mainly reflect the views and interests of the colonising ethno‐nations and their states at the cost of the dominated ethno‐nations. This preliminary study shows the inadequacy of information, knowledge and theory in the study of nationalism by questioning the validity of the global ‘modern…
Baro Tumsa's contributions to the Oromo national movement
The article examines the political and intellectual contributions of Baro Tumsa in forming the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) and developing the Oromo national movement. After the Haile Selassie government banned the Macha-Tulama Self-Help Association (MTA) in 1967 and killed or imprisoned its prominent leaders and members, Baro played a central role in the Oromo national struggle facilitating the birth of the OLF. This organization has been mobili…
The Impacts of English Colonial Terrorism and Genocide on Indigenous/Black Australians
This article critically explores the essence of colonial terrorism and its consequences on the indigenous people of Australia during their colonization and incorporation into the European-dominated racialized capitalist world system in the late 18th century. It uses multidimensional, comparative methods, and critical approaches to explain the dynamic interplay among social structures, human agency, and terror to explain the connection between ter…
Struggling for social justice in the capitalist world system
This article identifies and examines the processes through which the social justice movements of African Americans in the US, Oromos in Ethiopia, and Southern and Western Sudanese in Sudan emerged, and the successes and failures of these movements in a global and comparative perspective. It specifically explores four interrelated issues. First, the paper deals with some theoretical and methodological insights. Second, the piece explains how the r…
Ethiopia and ethnic politics
Oromia & Ethiopia
The Struggle for Knowledge
Taking the Oromo as historical actors, the emergent Oromo studies identify some deficiencies of "Ethiopian studies" that primarily focus on the Amhara and Tigray ethnic groups and their rulers, and ignore the history of the Oromo people. Many Ethiopian and Ethiopianist scholars do not recognize the positive cultural achievements of this people. As Shack (1994, 642) notes, "The lack of critical scholarship has inadvertently distorted the human ach…
Being and Becoming Oromo
Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse
Race and Ethnicity in East Africa (review)
Forster, Peter G., Michael Hitchcock, and Francis F. Lyimo. 2000. Race and Ethnicity in East Africa. New York and London: MacMillan Press Ltd. & St. Martin's Press, Inc. 181 pp
Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse
Asafa Jalata (ed.), Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: the search for freedom and democracy. Lawrenceville NJ: Red Sea Press1998, 313 pp., US24.95, ISBN 1 56902 066 3 (paperback). - Volume 71 Issue 2
Ethno‐nationalism and the global ‘modernising’ project
This article analyses the features and problems of ethno‐nationalism in the global context. The existing bodies of theories and literature on ethno‐nationalism mainly reflect the views and interests of the colonising ethno‐nations and their states at the cost of the dominated ethno‐nations. This preliminary study shows the inadequacy of information, knowledge and theory in the study of nationalism by questioning the validity of the global ‘modern…
Revisiting the Black Struggle
This article critically examines the cumulative successes and failures of the African American struggle for liberation and equality, and it hints at the future direction of the Black movement in the United States. Specifically, it demonstrates how the Black movement legally dismantled direct institutional racism and why it failed to eliminate indirect institutional racism. This article also explains why the objectives of cultural self-determinati…
Fighting against the Injustice of the State and Globalization
Fighting against the Injustice of the State and Globalization
Fighting against the Injustice of the State and Globalization
Introduction The Development of Black Nationalism The Oromo National Movement The Impact of U.S. Foreign Policy on the Oromo National Struggle Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements Beyond Nationalism: The Challenges of a Revolutionary Multicultural Democracy
State Terrorism and Globalization
This article compares the essence and effects of Ethiopian and Sudanese state terrorism by focusing on the commonalities between the two states. These peripheral African states have used global and regional connections and state terrorism as political tools for creating and maintaining the confluence of identity, religion, and political power. Ethiopia primarily depends on the West, and Sudan on the Middle East, since Christianity and Islam are t…
Struggling for social justice in the capitalist world system
This article identifies and examines the processes through which the social justice movements of African Americans in the US, Oromos in Ethiopia, and Southern and Western Sudanese in Sudan emerged, and the successes and failures of these movements in a global and comparative perspective. It specifically explores four interrelated issues. First, the paper deals with some theoretical and methodological insights. Second, the piece explains how the r…
Being in and out of Africa
This article critically examines how the duality inherent in the concept of Ethiopianism shifts back and forth between claims of a “Semitic” identity when appealing to the White, Christian, ethnocentric, occidental hegemonic power center and claims of an African identity when cultivating the support of sub-Saharan Africans and the African diaspora while, at the same time, ruthlessly suppressing the history and culture of non-Semitic Africans of t…
Conceptualizing and Theorizing Terrorism in the Historical and Global Context
This article defines and theorizes terrorism by focusing on five important and central issues: lack of balance in current terrorism studies, blurred boundaries between legitimate and illegitimate violence of state and non-state actors, the multiplicity and complexity of terrorism, terrorism as a contested and understudied aspect of the modern world system, and terrorism in the name of money, God, and civilization. It also emphasizes the significa…
The Impacts of Terrorism and Capitalist Incorporation on Indigenous Americans
This article demonstrates the connections between terrorism, colonial state formation, and the development of the capitalist world system, or globalization, exploring the consequences of colonial terrorism on indigenous American peoples. First, the piece introduces the central argument and conceptualizes and theorizes terrorism. Second, it examines the structural aspects of colonial terrorism by connecting it to specific colonial policies and pra…
Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System
This paper explores the major consequences of the expansion of the European-dominated capitalist world system, colonial terrorism, and continued subjugation for indigenous Americans, Australians, and Africans between the late fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. Western powers as well as most of the descendants of European colonialists in Europe, the Americas, Australia, and in Africa and their regional and local collaborators deny or forget or mi…
The Impacts of English Colonial Terrorism and Genocide on Indigenous/Black Australians
This article critically explores the essence of colonial terrorism and its consequences on the indigenous people of Australia during their colonization and incorporation into the European-dominated racialized capitalist world system in the late 18th century. It uses multidimensional, comparative methods, and critical approaches to explain the dynamic interplay among social structures, human agency, and terror to explain the connection between ter…
The Oromo, Gadaa/Siqqee Democracy and the Liberation of Ethiopian Colonial Subjects
This paper explores the potential role of the Gadaa/Siqqee system of Oromo democracy in the development of a democratic multinational liberation movement of the colonized nations within the Ethiopian Empire in order to dismantle the Tigrayan-led Ethiopian terrorist government and replace it with a sovereign multinational democratic state in the Horn of Africa based on the principles of indigenous democracy. After a brief introduction, this study …
Theorizing Modern Society as an Inverted Reality
The triple causes of African underdevelopment
The paper attempts to inform Africans and the world at large of the triple evils of colonial capitalism, state terrorism, and racism and of different forms of African resistance in order to search for new ways of implementing universal human rights laws and the rights of indigenous people. Most indigenous Africans are immensely underdeveloped and have suffered for more than five centuries because of these triple evils that have been imposed on th…
Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization
Phases of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization considers terrorism as an aspect of the capitalist world system for almost five centuries. Jalata's research reveals that terrorism can emerge from abov
English Colonial Terrorism, Genocide, and Indigenous Australians
With the expansion of the European-dominated capitalist world system to the Australian continent in the late eighteenth century, English settlers practiced terror and genocide on indigenous Australians to take over their homeland. These crimes against humanity continued into the nineteenth century until indigenous peoples were almost destroyed, and the ownership of their land was entirely transferred to the English colonial settlers and their des…
Reimagining Global Social Movements in the Perspective of Egalitarian Democracy
The analysis starts by offering a critique of the existing social movement literature and by suggesting the integration of critical theories of knowledge with theories and wisdom of indigenous peoples in order to develop an alternative knowledge of critical thinking and scholarship in social movement studies. It also proposes ideas about the need to democratize knowledge for better accounting for social movement studies, including that of indigen…
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