I'm going to compile a list of quotes about somali's, oromo's, etc, from the perspective of European travelers

[Abba Sadacha]

''It is said that Somalis have no fear of fighting: British journalist Richard Dowden stated, ''One abiding, horrifying but typical image of Somalis' bravery stays in mind: a young Somali dressed in T-shirt, flip-flops and macawiis, the traditional skirt-like wrap, running at an American armored Humvee, firing an AK-47 from the hip. Bravery, ten points. Stupidity, also ten points. He was cut to shreds.'' Another British writer, Gerald Hanley, embraced the war-prone nature of Somalis as a reckless pride, a warrior-like mentality. In his book Warriors: Life and Death Among the Somalis, he stated, ''of all the races of Africa there cannot be one better to live among than the most difficult, the proudest, the bravest, the vainest, the most merciless, the friendliest; the Somalis.''

[Somalis in Minnesota
Book by Ahmed Ismail Yusuf]

 

[Abba Sadacha]

''The Oromo's are the remnant of an ancient Hamitic people who appear to have come from North-east Africa, now Somaliland, the region which is most probably to be identified with the land of Punt. It seems, also, that from the same stock which produced the Oromo came the dynastic Egyptians, as I have suggested [Ancient Egypt, 1926, p.10].
This is attested, among other things, by the proofs of the Oromo origin of the XIIth dynasty [Ancient Egypt, 1924, PP. 38-42].
The Oromo word for ''God'' or ''Sky,'' Wak, seems to be turned into Egyptian as 'Uahka,' the IXth dynasty name. It is perhaps worth noting, in regard to the prophecy quoted in Ancient Egypt, 1924, p.41, that ''a king shall come from the south, whose name is Ameny,'' that Aman is a modern Oromo name.
A further connection suggested in Ancient Egypt, 1926, p. 96, of ''the great Oromo goddess ''Atete'' with the Old Kingdom name Ateta, would refer to a festival rather than a goddess, as named in O.L.Z.; Atete [var. ateti] is defined by Tutschek [Oromo dictationary, [p.4] as a ''certain festival.''
2. The original home of the Oromo was somewhat to the east of the modern Abyssinia. In this region the Oromo were settled at the time when they invaded Egypt. About A.D. 1735, they were driven to the west, and overran the southern part of Abyssinia, which is their present home.''
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[Ancient Egypt and the East, Volumes 11-12, p. 36
Editor: Prof. Sir Flinders Petrie, F.R.S., F.B.A).

 

[Abba Sadacha]

Antonnelli brings these factors together when he writes: ''Menelik needs Europe to have ammunition and arms without which he would lose all what he had already done [conquered] in one day, since it is impossible to dominate the Oromo without rifles. On the contrary, if they are in a state of equality in traditional arms the Oromo are SUPERIOR to the Amhara. For this reason, Menelik can not stop having political and commercial relations with Italy, and we have to help him and make him dependent upon us for the safety and prosperity of his kingdom... *P. Antonelli, ''Rapporti sullo scioa al Ministero degli Affari Esteri (de 22 Maggio 1883 al guigno 1888).'' Miscellanea, Etiopia ed Eritrea (Roma, 1889), p.63.

 

[Abba Sadacha]

''During the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, from about 1935 to 1941, the Oromo leaders of Wallaga and Illubabor initiated a movement for independence from Ethiopia, based on the premise that they had voluntarily joined in the 1880s and had not thereby forfeited any sovereign rights, and in 1936 petitioned the British government to secede and become a British protectorate. The attempt was unsuccessful, but Oromo nationalism remained at least as potent in this area as in Eastern Ethiopia. Many Oromo from Wallaga were active in the Macha-Tulama Self Help Association of the 1960s.''

[Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia, pg 320

 

[somalipatriot]

''During the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, from about 1935 to 1941, the Oromo leaders of Wallaga and Illubabor initiated a movement for independence from Ethiopia, based on the premise that they had voluntarily joined in the 1880s and had not thereby forfeited any sovereign rights, and in 1936 petitioned the British government to secede and become a British protectorate. The attempt was unsuccessful, but Oromo nationalism remained at least as potent in this area as in Eastern Ethiopia. Many Oromo from Wallaga were active in the Macha-Tulama Self Help Association of the 1960s.''

[Evil Days: Thirty Years of War and Famine in Ethiopia, pg 320

Since this generation is very knowledgeable about Somalia’s history and its economic and political situation why is it that there are no young Somalis in parliament or in the key ministries It feels like there are only a handful of us and the sooner a young Somali stands up it will create an era similar to the historical figures of our nation before us and the 1940s-1960s Somali youth league

 

[Abba Sadacha]

''The Gallas who give themselves the general designations of ''Oromo,'' that is ''Men,'' or ''Brave,'' and Ilma-Orma, that is, ''Sons of Men,'' are more commonly known to their Somali enemies by the appellation of Durr, that is, ''Vile,'' or ''abject.'' But although thus despised by the neighboring Somali people, the Gallas greatly surpass them in intelligence, love of industry, peaceful habits, and trustworthiness. They are also far more numerous, thanks to the fertility of their plains, whose light reddish soil they diligently cultivate.''

[The Earth and Its Inhabitants ...: South and east Africa
By Elisée Reclus, page 400]

 

[Dalalos_ibn_Adali]

The Oromo people who study their history know the Islamic bearers are the Mareexaan from Somalia who spread the Diin to our Cushitic brothers