The Sidama people fought hard to achieve self-determination. The struggle claimed thousands of lives during armed struggle in the Derg Marxist regime and beyond, including the non-violent struggle. The larger and more well-organized part of the Sidama people’s freedom struggle was the armed struggle under the umbrella of the Sidama Liberation Movement (SLM). The Sidama people contributed the lion’s portion to remove the fascist suppressive regime of Derg that committed war crimes and mass murder in Ethiopia. The Sidama people’s heroism was unsung, though fought in a furious armed struggle under SLM against the military regime until its fall in 1991. Thus, thousands of SLM freedom fighters sacrificed their lives and blood during that armed struggle to regain the self-administration for the Sidama people. That decisive sacrificial struggle helped the Sidama nation to decide by referendum in 2019 to become the regional state. The Sidama history, culture, and language were neglected and underdeveloped. The new generation may need to maintain and watch closely the dearly begotten state of Sidama to prevent bias and corruption.

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Analyzes the role of intellectuals and students in Ethiopian state power before and after the Italian Occupation (1936-1941).

School of Udhra takes its title from the Bedouin poetic tradition associated with the seventh-century Arab poet Djamil, the Udhrite school of poets who, "when loving die." Bedouin tradition, however, is only one of the strands of world revery these poems have recourse to. They obey a "bedouin" impulse of their own-fugitive, moving on, nomadic. Ogo the fox, the Dogon avatar of singleness and unrest, runs throughout, crossing and recrossing divided ground, primal isolate, insistent within the book's cross-cultural weave. The poems track variances of union and disunion- social, sexual, mystic, mythic- both formally and in their content. They return rhapsody to its root sense: stitching together. Threads ranging through ancient Egypt, shamanic Siberia, Rastafarian Jamaica, and elsewhere figure in, inflected by conjunctive and disjunctive cadences inspired by jazz, Gnaoua trance-chant, cante jondo, and other musics.

"An eighteen-year old girl sets out to meet a young man whom she had never met before and is swept away by a series of events that transformed her life in a way she could have never imagined."--Back cover.