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Juxtaposing Democracy with the Gada System of the Oromo People of the Horn of Africa Part 1
© 04/15/2018
The amorphousness of the term democracy is utilized as a bait of legitimacy to rule by tyrannical regimes. Regimes who come to power by bullet or through fake ballot boxes. The Abyssinian brigands and warlords, and many like them, exemplify the perversion of “democracy” as a license.
Find detailed insights on TPLF tyranny in the previous article, “Democracy: a Prescription of Cyanide Pilli to the Abyssinia.” A predatory, impoverished, and barbaric empire, paralleling European colonialism and the modern TPLF’s fascism, has dominated the South since the mid-1800s, operating under a single-party, military command structure.
The article critiques the widely touted “Western democracy,” arguing that its claim to solve global sociopolitical, religious, and economic problems is overstated and unsubstantiated.
Sadly, we, the products of a “modern education” system that was more indoctrination, uncritically apply its methods to solve our nation’s political, social, economic, and cultural issues. Because of our training and socialization, we became believers of what was called certifications, such as BA, MA, Ph.D., etc., to validate our expertise from the education we have diligently absorbed without questioning its relevance or applicability to our niche and we turned to a burden of our society rather than solution .
Affected by strange ideologies such as socialism, communism, capitalism, democracy, etc., and the behaviors that come with them, they insist on imposing these beliefs on our society at any cost. As a result, we and our society have had to endure the negative effects of these unfamiliar foreign names and the actions hidden behind them. Nevertheless, we did not learn from it and continued to be the marionette and die-hard to supplant strange terms such as democracy as the silver bullet to our problems.
We became unfamiliar with our own indigenous Gadaa-Seeqqee system, which was invented , developed , lived , fine tuned from generation to generations by the polymath, genius of the Oromo people practiced for time immemorial that proved to be the champion of sociopolitical–economic-religious., etc. system that has no comparison.
As Prof. Asafa Jalata, an author of eight books and over sixty research publications described:
I have studied the history of the world society, African, European, African–American, Oromo, etc, and I have never seen a system that can be compared to Sirna Gada-Seeqqee system, its complexity, mechanisms of check and balance of power, a civilization that can be able to be the model for the rest of the world suffering from the so-called western democracy of party lines in the 21st century.
Before the shadow of conquest stretched across Oromo land, a remarkable social fabric thrived, characterized by an inherent order that rendered institutions like police forces and prisons utterly unknown.
Conflict resolution was embedded within communal values and traditional justice systems, fostering an environment of mutual respect and accountability that precluded the need for state-sanctioned incarceration. Within this self-regulating community, the degradation of prostitution was unknown, and consequently, the scourge of sexually transmitted diseases was an alien concept, foreign to a society where relationships were governed by deep-seated ethical codes and communal well-being.
It was only with the brutal incursion of Nefxaanyaa horeds the very “aliens of ethic and morale-less, dogs of war” — that these societal blights became tragically familiar, imported to the south through an invasion that not only shattered peace but deliberately introduced forms of exploitation and moral decay previously unimaginable within the Oromo way of life.
Mental and Material Dependent Clientele of the “Educator”
We come out from the campus to echo it and finally serve with loyalty. As they say: “A good boy or a good girl…” To put it in other words, unconsciously, through this training, we turned to be mental and material dependent clientele of the “educator” of the establishment and strangers to our ancestral soil and culture.
We feel “civilized”, when we behave, and act as the “educators” manner like them to be considered and entertained as an “intellect” for the eyes and the ears of the alikes; the certified peers. Unconsciously we accept the prejudice attested to our culture and the very most of our people. That is the only purpose of the training of the established system what is called “Western Education”
It is mostly important to the flag anthem-dependent “Quasi-African States” as a whole who beats an empty drum of “Independent day” that did not hold a grain of truth in all Instances.
Academia and its curriculum; more precisely, the indoctrination is to produce, and reproduce a loyal, perfect servant and the maintenance of the established systems eternity. Otherwise, it is just a loss of time, energy, and resources.
No one educates us about us. In other words no colonial entities and more preciously settler colonialists will educate the Indigenous people about themselves on this Planet. In the opposite, they eliminate the Wisdom, History, and Culture of Indigenous people.
In fact, the only purpose of the training of the established system what is called the “Western education, Academia and its curriculum; more precisely, the indoctrination is to produce, reproduces a loyal, perfect servant and the maintenance of the established systems eternity.
Otherwise, it is just a loss of time, energy, and resources. That is why no one educated us and will educate us who we were and who we are on this Planet, and provides us with the skills and the tools to learn and teach our own History, Wisdom, Culture, Humanity, Civilizations, and Systems of our Administration and world view.
No one taught and will never teach us the great civilizations of the African continent and the African people’s, Wisdom of our ancestral heritage and their role in world history and humanity.
Indeed, consistent wars of elimination were and are waged by settler Haberdasher or later Abyssinian colonists since their foothold in the African continent. More precisely, the unique Gadaa-Seeqqee System of the Oromo people and the Lua-system of Sidama people of the Horn of Africa among other Indigenous homemade, grown African systems.
These are some of those remarkable creations of the human mind that evolved into a full-fledged system of government, as a result of centuries of evolution and deliberate, rational, legislative transformation for at least six thousand years before the birth of Greece in global human history late alone to be the mother of democracy.
Indeed Even worse we attested, and we do still do, the strange vocabulary called “democracy” that turned the license of the rule of the established political system of tyrannical regimes.
More on Gadaa-Seeqqee- the homegrown and real democracy of the Oromo people its’ measure pillars will be for which we have more facts and figure today than ever will be treated in the second parts of the coming article.
If we are honest to ourselves we the real democracy if stand from its literal meaning the voice of the people we must go back to our villages and learn from the genius organic intellectuals sitting under the shadow of the sacred Odaa tree, not in colleges or university who do not even know our existence let alone our Gada or Lua system Back to Athens, facts and figures on the Athenian soil at that particular period of time and environs will explored in part II
Were Athenians ruled by Democrats or Kleptocrats?
In order to have the full picture of what was called democracy and comprehensive understanding making a brief excursion to the history of the birthplace of Democracy, i.e. Athens may shed more light. Most significantly, what it intended to the people of Athens as a whole and the system that ruled the Athenians at that specific time and place and to evaluate and final judgment on the subject as a whole.
Here, clear distinction must be made. The Athenians, in that particular time of their history found their own way to solve their societal problems of their polis (city-states) at that period of time they faced and come out with term democracy and implemented it. They did not claimed to solve the socio-political economic problems beyond their boundaries of the world they did know nothing about it indeed.
That is in fact their own right and no one can criticism them from outside their polis. That is not the issue here, but the imported version of it that traveled to the rest of European metropolitans and via sees and oceans and the world we know today and those who consider themselves as the apex of democracy and its bodyguards.
The term democracy of Athens, later Greek origin (Dēmokratiā), where Demo means (the mass of ordinary people) and Kratos (the political power, rule.) Literally, in English, that meant the political power of the mass of ordinary people.
It was introduced by Cleisthenes as reform of the tyrannical Archons (rulers) of the notable city of Athens in 507-508 BC. Similarly, reforms were also existed in some Greek city-states. Apropos, Greek, It worth’s to note that the word Greek as “quasi state” by itself was granted by Rome that was derived from Graiksos, inhabitants of Graia a town of Boestai district around Thebes from Greek word Thē bai.
Thus, before, Romes occupations, Greek was an empire by itself that incarcerated scattered autonomous tribes around the Mediterranean Sea, such as the notorious classical rivals of the military city of Sparta and Athens, and incorporated into what finally called Greek. It must be called the Greek Empire indeed. But, Rome reserved the term and privilege of naming itself “Imperium Rōmānum,” where Greek turned its colony.
The Greco-Roman empire brought the term to the rest of what we know as Europe, and later on the extended immigrant families via Seas, Oceans of European expansionist and colonists further disseminated to the rest of the world as we know it today.
Coming back to the root, what do the facts of the Athenians of that historical period impart us today? How does it end up to be a broad-spectrum recipe for all sociopolitical, cultural, economic etc., problems of the world community imposed by the westerns on others today, when they virtually has no a trace of democratic culture in their history at all on their own soil?
Did it ever practiced in Europe and in her immigrated families via Seas and Oceans for the last over two-half millennium? The real challenging question to be answered? And, can we call Athens, later Greek polis (city-states) democratic after all as we began to refer her as the birth place?
Moreover, why must the older civilizations who owes their own home-born, grown nurtured and developed indigenous systems such as the Gada System of the Oromo people, the Lua-system of the Sidamas, etc of other African born systems which are far more better than what is called the western democracy, even incomparable in resolving same issues of humanity.
Furthermore, what was portrayed as the western democracy and imposed on us as the only solutions for the world community was and is proved to serve as the tool for tranny in the human history and that holds true to the very date.
In fact, Our people have never been needed and do not need to go to Athens to learn Athenians democracy or did not need to import its 2nd hand or 3rd hand copies from the so-called Westerners, to administer their people, to resolve their problems to live with justice and tranquility, law and order, humane and harmony with mother nature that they inherited and have it in their DNA right on their soil at home.
Why do one impose on our people who virtually do not know, need not too, the existence of Athens-democracy late alone to implement it a system of peace, justices tranquility that in fact could not hold water.
Athens, at the begging of the 6 century BC that was considered that democracy per se: the political power of the mass of ordinary people ruled Athens. An analysis and evaluations of the establishment Athenian polis if we departs as democracy is defined here, then the facts on the soil was indeed very far from it and even diametrically the opposite.
The Lazy Horses of Athenians
The total population of the city of Athens was estimated to 140,000 residents at this time in history. The size of Athens was ca. 2,500km, approximately the size of today’s Luxembourg. Out of the total population, only 40,000 Archons “higher class”, ca. 8% who were older than 18 had a right to vote. The rest, the very majority that encompasses, women, slaves, farmers, and Mitecs (Immigrants)-mainly from North Africa were all excluded.
Another scholar has suggested that in the mid-4th century, there may have been about 100,000 citizens. Out of them, 10,000 or Metics (resident foreigners) and as many as 150,000 slaves. Among citizens, about 30,000 were males over 18. If these numbers are fairly correct, then the demos comprised 10 to 15 percent of the total population.
The population of Athens was socio-political classified into four major hierarchical groups, the Archons (higher class), who portrayed as Noble-men’s pedigree who had a right to hold slaves, own land, and the sociopolitical and economical power of decision making. They were nicknamed by critical thinkers and writers of that period as “The Lazy Horses” lived by predating on the others. They do not know what work means, and allergic to work, self-legitimized to live as a prey.
The second class were also known as middle classes, these were professional workers, merchants, traders, contractors, manufacturers, artists, etc. most of them were considered as non citizens and called Metics from Greek word Metoikos that means Immigrants who had no rights to participate in any political and social system of Athens and had no right to vote, and the third class were also known as the lower classes were predominately slaves and the farmers (serfs).
Slaves must buy their own freedom from their owners in theory, but that could rarely realize in fact, let alone to be a part of the political and social participation and votes. The irony of it was that the city of Athens its self’s and its military were built on the backs of the slaves.
Thus, Athens was ruled by collective Male, chauvinist tyrannical Archons, or aristocrats that Athenians themselves called them as “The Lazy Horses.” In other words, Athens was ruled by Kleptocracy (government or state in which those in power exploit national resources and steal; rule by a thief or thieves), rather than Democracy per se.
Most importantly what the Athenian Kleptocrats called it democracy was basically to solve their own problem within themselves at that specified time to avoid internal butchering, clashes of interests of Archons or Aristocrats, let alone to give a credit as the origin of democracy per se, (the people rule themselves), unless one wants to escape from the truth, the facts on the ground at this junction of history in first place. And that is what most of those who portray it do today.
It was also the Athenian jury found guilty and forced to drink hemlock, (Conium maculatum), poisonous herbaceous plant and killed Socrates as it is known accused of “refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state” and of “corrupting the youth.” and that is also part of Athens democracy.
Demos from Athens via Rome to Europe and Americas
Greek was credited as the birthplace of democracy and the sources of European civilization. In fact, It was not the Greeks who had very little if at all any connection, but It was Rome who brought as they call it civilization to the barbarians of the north now known as Europe and brought with their immigrated families via Seas and Oceans to the rest of the older civilizations and continents beyond her geographical boundaries.
As she moved with premise and the doctrine of wipe out policies in possessions of lands and corresponding resources of the indigenous people, conquer, occupy and resettle, “terra nullius“ where ever her footholds on every habitable continent
How did the Greco-Roman world teaching of democracy were implemented in later European metropolis and the democracy bestowed by the Washington DC to the globe, as they say, to bring the world to a better place?
If one considers the scattered Mediterranean tribes as European as this junction of history and that can be true only in geographical perspective, but not cultural and what so ever. Thus, one must also bear in mind that these scattered Mediterranean tribes what was later called Greek have had over thousands of years of interconnection with the great civilization of Africa and Asia, more precisely the Great Civilization of KMT (the Black land) or the Black People of the land) along the River Nile and the civilization of Phoenician respectively for which today more than ever evidences are mushrooming from various disciplines.
Thus, there could have been no Greek civilizations or what was called Greek-democracy and the extended Greco-Roman–empires training later to be called the “European civilizations.” The foundation of Greek civilization was anchored in the southern neighboring great and older civilization of Africa and Western Asia.
The best first hand sources and evidence were the Greeks themselves, who traveled to KMT-Africa, in search and to acquire knowledge in all sphere of life, and come back home, fine-tuned it in their terrain, to their culture in their epoch that turned to be the origin of the civilization of European.
If we can cast our eyes a bit higher and look for the begging of the African Holocaust per se by the Europeans then the invasion of Alexander of Macedonia, the great monster, for whom A. Hitler of the German third prayed that began in the 6th century BC.
He totally destroyed and occupied, plundered, looted the products of over ten thousand years of African civilizations wisdom, destroyed the greatest human civilization of KMT-of African civilizations and final and shipped back to Europe and renamed to Egypt as it was called today. He led to its collapse.
But the beneficiaries the Greeks that turned the mother of European civilization become The absolute denials of the facts from where they acquired the knowledge.
It worth’s to remind once at time that as the sacred histories call KMT was the flower of African civilization whose roots and stems extends up to the South. As they stated in the papyrus of Hunefer: “We came from the begging of the Nile where God Hapi dwells at the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon”. The great African civilization that could not share its secret, its mystery system yet, in the 21st century.
As Europe comes out of her dark ages, began to navigate via seas and oceans almost over half of the world civilization were already accomplished. The Portuguese was credited as the first navigator around the African coasts that began with trades, normal commodities like Gold, Species, etc, but they want more, to buy human being and Sale that began in 1445.
Portuguese turned to be “the real mother of all slavers” Some argue “the real mother of slavers” was the Roman Catholic Church whose religious empire sanctioned slavery and the African slave trade as a mission to “civilize” indigenous peoples of the world and wins those from “pagans” for Christendom.
The unique barbarism acts of the Europeans what the world had never ever destined to witness in human history, chattel slavery succumbed over 210 million of Africans lives alone according to UNESCO reports of 1978.
Slavery was mutated to colonialism from 1870 to 1960 where over 200 million were murdered the continuations of the African Holocaust. Yet, no lesson learned from one of the gruesome acts crime against humanity of the past.
The past which we know for granted was deliberately ignored and further promoted, mutated to re-scrambling of the Africa content as Alpha. The same people who come out to the rest of the world with the premise of wipeout, plunder and destroy whatever comes on their way i they could not even shame to propagate to lecture about “democracy” where ever they pay a visit to Africa and propagate their grandiosity redundantly to put the world in a better place in the 21st centuries ironically.
The mockery of it is that their offspring today are louder and vocal in portraying themselves as an “apex of the Democracy and its vanguards” to underpins their recipe for the rest of the world today than ever.
Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely
Let the facts and figure of the rest past speaks for itself. Alone in the last century according to Rudolph J. Rummel, intensive research studies, and publications who come to the conclusion: Power kills, absolute power kills absolutely and that is the most serious threat to humankind in our century.
He reported in total during the first 88 years of the 20th century almost over 170 million men, women, and children have been shot, beaten, tortured, knifed, burned, starved, frozen, crushed or work to death; or buried alive drowned, hanged, bombed, or killed in any other of the myriad Ways regimes have inflicted death on unarmed, helpless citizens. Democracies themselves are responsible for some of the democide (Mega killing) committed in the 20th century.
During the era of the so-called cold war, the African continent was viewed as a convenient pawn on the global political chessboard. After the collapse of the Soviet Union the continent turned to be the prime targeted terra of competitions for the west lead by the USA and followed by the Europeans and the new emerging powers of Asian, such as China, India and others to re-scramble her rich resources on the surface and under the surface as it has always been for centuries in the past.
Africa is turned to the final frontiers as far as the world’s natural resource supplies of energy for the survival and development of the westerners (like oil, natural gas, uranium, solar or biofuels etc.) her fertile soil and lands, minerals, and agricultural and animal products, etc, in which the African content is blessed with.
The noisiness of the nomenclature turned more ubiquitous after the collapse of the rival eastern blocs lead by the USSR known as the communist blocks and the fall of Berlin wall in 1989. The winners of the global political trophy the Western Capitalist and Imperialist blocks singularly who considered themselves, the civilized west, the global police, etc., and operates under the mantra of the political jargon called democracy and its enforcement of its value in their own image under the misnomer called “development aids, Globalization, Investment, Security, protection of their interest, etc.,” most significantly in the resource-richest African continent.
The term what was called development aid, an equivocal, endless diabolic lies, in fact, meant nothing more than re-scrambling, and the protection of their profits by all means possible.
The program that started to formulate in the 1960 and the spin took off with the assumption that the old colonial powers would gradually phase out their direct financial aid as colonies became independent and multilateral organizations like the UN, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund took over development work.
These are all fine-tuned purposely planned and calculated tools and systems to cloak their ruthless exploitation’s of African resources ad infinitum as it has always been since the establishments of the historical predatory-prey relationships between the Western Europe and their extended families and the African continent and where ever their feet holds on this planet via seas and oceans “the civilization missionaries” like the that holds true to the very date.
They further prescribes, lectures, imposes to implement their own image as they have a broad-spectrum recipe, as a silver bullet to solve the entire global problem. In fact, they were and continues to be the causes of the problems of the globe by itself that they created in their own image for centuries through violence and extermination policies wherever their feet hold on this planet, let alone to be the solvers.
As it has always been their main goal, is to uphold their established profit-geared interests that were deep-rooted in their bone-marrow that go back for centuries of the so-called “civilization missionaries,” the cold-blooded murders indeed. The rest is a lip services, of duality behavior and endless fed of the propaganda machinery they monopolize on this planet.
If at all if there is something new now is that the same people who consider themselves Democrats, civilized, Christians, etc, sponsors and provides the tyrants of Africa without exception and elsewhere with all tools need to commit genocides on peaceful civilians who stands against tyranny on their ancestral soil.
The mindset of Europe who left their motherland to search for resources via her geographical boundaries with premise of annihilations of the autochthonous people from their ancestral soil where ever their ship docked, and territorial and resources acquisitions is as old as the establishments of the relationships of other older rich continents such as Africa, Asia, and Americas are in concern.
Thus, the current Europeans designed and built concentration camps to avoid the flight of African refugees’ footholds in geographical Europe. The current preparedness of the mega-project to build walls, iron-cartons, for which they are masters at their motherland, around over 30.4 millions of square kilometers of the Africa continent to turn it to a continental prison house that human civilization has never ever destined to witness if it is realized.
This fact, again and again, proved that they follow the footsteps of their grandfathers yet and they did and will not learn lessons from the past. They do not even respect the so-called UN law and norms they initially profited from it and would not even allow their lowliest citizen, let alone the “quasi-states”, regimes and criminals to be tried there and they are above International law.
The Awful Truth of Development Aids
The real question to ferret out as a whole is who desperately needed and still needs whom to develop? What did and do the facts on the African soil spoke and speaks, teach and taught us. One crucial fact that we often forget to tell the world for whatever the case might be is that Africa helped to develop Western Europe in the same proportion as Western Europe helped to under-develop Africa.
Dr. Walter Rodeny wrote what sucks me most, is the fact that “so much of Africa’s wealth goes to non-Africans who resides for the most part outside of the continent” in his book How Europe Underdeveloped Africa. Furthermore, Prof. Richard Drayton wrote “the modern world as we know it would not exist without Africa and its Caribbean plantations.” Quoted by Osei Boateng How Africa developed Europe and America in NewAfrican, October 2005 No 444 edition.
Is it, foreign auto companies or the African man and women, slave children laborers forced to work without virtually without payment and any protection in Uranium, Diamond, Cobalt, Calton, Gold, mining fields, etc? Is it the foreign chocolate fabric or the child Labour in a Cacao plantation in Africa?
Is it the foreign flower companies or the young Oromo girls and boys forced slave labor in the greenhouses in Oromia under unbearable working conditions, without any protection from hazardous and cancerogenic herbicides who can not finally buy her his daily bread or an Oromo or Sidam coffee farmers who could not get even one-tenth of their product? Late the picture speaks for themselves!!
Child labor in African mining fields, Cacao plantations, Flower plantations, Agricultural fields, lists without limits are daily business in each and every corners of the continent. More painstaking slavery in the 21st century in human history.
These all inhuman crimes committed by moral and ethic-less conglomerate regimes and companies operate under the mantra of “globalization, democracy, development aids” that grows exponentially from years to years. A diabolic lies to keep the status quo of the undeserved and untenable superiority of resources where Africa is already seen as their own backyard and properties. These are all the news, the video audio footages we daily watches and witness the chicanery of the African people today. Without shame, they propagate and tell us to bring the world in a better place. What a magnificent paradox.
We must always keep in mind as an African that the very reason why first of all the Europeans invaded Africa and the premise they moved from their home and fine-tuned their nomenclatures from time to time.
The fact is simple and crystal clear and that is for land and resources acquisition via her boundaries by deploying all means they possess. It is also a fact that of all the continents in the world, Europe is the 2nd smaller continent in size and densely populated and the most resource-less and avaricious resource consumer in the world paradoxically.
That led her to go out of her geographical boundaries to the unknown world to acquire land, resources and wealth and ship back to her home. As a result, she committed a crime against humanity that the world had never ever seen.
So far the relationships of Europe, the most resourceless content versus Africa is concerned nothing has changed in real except vocabularies such as “democracy and its modifications prefixes or suffixes, such Representative, Federal, Liberal, Developmental, Christian, etc. that seems fish-able to ears and eyes today than ever, but the same fundamental establishments based on exploitation’s under these masks.
Nothing has changed that almost everything that Europe needed to develop, and still needs to fulfill her deep-rooted gluttonous habits of resource consumption had to (or must) come from abroad, and the richest African continent is the Alpha to be preyed.
If we read their mind and watch the competitions of the greedy colonialists of the past and other competitors of on the African soil and resources today it is an open secret they all are competing to secure their colonial ownership’s status quo of the past for further exploitation as it has always been in the centuries of the colonialism.
They are analog to their grandfathers “civilization missionaries” of the past who invaded, conquered and committed Genocide wherever their footholds. That is why they provided and leading firearm exports, modern automatic firearms modern military soft wears, cyberspy technologies, logistics, etc, to their clients they breed, brought them into the political power, authorized to rule and maintain in the power.
As a result we destined to witness the crime against humanity: Genocides committed by the tyrants so far the interests of the tutelage’s were kept intact and their profit–rings, with simple logic, give an egg, the political ticket to the tyrants, dictators, autocrats of Africa and Asia etc, whom they catapulted and name them, the good guys with whom they can make business and take a hen from the people of Africa in return and ship it back home and justify it in all.
They invented the conglomerates who consider them as NGOs, indeed are the silent killers, Nihilist Groups of Organization to accomplish their tasks term to suppress, the natural dynamics of the developments of the society to overthrow the tyrannical regimes such as in Africa or Asia and elsewhere where committed under the masks of the so-called “Western democracy, Civilization, Development…..” and their extended long-arms.
“Knowledge of our own people and culture is power, it provides wisdom of Liberation, and People are not liberated because of lack of the knowledge of their own heritages”
Kan Hanqate Waaqni Itti Ya Guutu!!!
Injifatnoon kan Ummata Oromooti!!!!!!