⸻ The Oromo Nation and the History of Sport: Movement, Discipline, and Identity Within the Oromo Nation, sport has never been a marginal activity or a form of simple recreation. Long before the modern separation of athletics from everyday life, Oromo society understood physical excellence, endurance, competition, and discipline as essential components of social organization, leadership formation, and moral education. Movement of the body was inseparable from movement within society. Sport functi

Before the Chronicles: Wollo and the Deep History of the Oromo by Oromia-My Country Research and Collective This book presents a reflective exploration of history through continuity rather than dates alone. Using Wollo as its central lens, it examines how a society can preserve memory not primarily in written archives, but in living systems — governance, language, land use, and social relationships. Instead of beginning with the first written mention of the Oromo, the work asks a deeper question