The Quest for Democracy, Self-Determination, and Just Peace in Oromia and Ethiopia

This book demonstrates that the Oromo national struggle for egalitarian democracy, self-determination, and just peace is complex, mysterious, and dangerous. By employing a social-constructionist theory of making societies and critical comparative political, economic, historical, sociological, and sociocultural approaches, it impresses the importance of exposing the deficiencies of dominant social theories and systems of knowledge production and asserts that until the intellectuals of the colonized communities develop critical knowledge for human liberation by decolonizing the minds of the oppressed and the modern sciences, which help perpetuate ignorance, domination, and exploitation, there cannot be true human liberation and egalitarian democracy.