Anaa Dhufu!

As diasporic Oromo youth, we feel alienated both from Oromo culture of the homeland, and the culture the older generation is constructing in the diaspora. We feel we too are constructing our own culture and our unique identities. This page will be a space where we come together, reduce our alienation and explore our unique identities. Let us come together and create culture clubs, language clubs, and folk songs clubs.

We also feel a strong need for coming together in terms of just getting to know each other and having fun. Why not cyberspace courtship? Why not relationships of intimacy on the Internet? Is it possible? Please visit the RENDEZVOUSpage and participate. Some Oromo youth are also involved in organizing soccer tournaments. Please visit the  SPORTS  page and participate. And please send us your comments and what you think about these pages. 

Many Oromo youth are being resettled in the big cities of the Western world right now. Adjustment to the new cultures and settlement in the new societies is not going to be an easy task. Getting to know the school systems is a huge challenge. But we can help and support each other. Let us come together and form tutorial clubs, and peer support clubs.

Right now, the Ethiopian government is forcefully conscripting our pears in the homeland and using them as cannon fodder in its war with Eritrea. Please visit  HUMAN RIGHTS HUMAN RIGHTS page to see the atrocities. Thousands of Oromo youth are fleeing the homeland, and so many of our peers are languishing in refugee camps. To have a taste of what it is like to be a refugee, please go to POEMS  and read a poem written by an Oromo refugee youth in one of the refugee camps in Kenya. We need a space to instill hope in their seemingly hopeless world. We need to support our peers in whatever we can. Please contact me at:
 kuweekumsaa@yahoo.com