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- Gadaa (Oromo: Gadaa, lit. 'era'[citation needed]) is the indigenous system of governance used by the Oromos in Ethiopia and northern Kenya. It is also...
- Oromo people traditionally used the gadaa system as the primary form of governance. A leader is elected by the gadaa system and their term lasts eight years...
- well-developed age-grade system known as the Gadaa System. [Another example is that of the Maasai] Gadaa through history came to organize social life...
- the same name, Boorana. The Boorana people are notable for practicing the Gadaa system without interruption. Through the Gadha system, the Boranas are believed...
- Abdulkariem Ibrahim Hamid, more commonly known by his nom de guerre Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa, was an Ethiopian guerrilla commander and one of the first leaders of the...
- sets having a judicial function, for example. The Oromo people and their Gadaa System are also another good example of a society whose social organization...
- in Siraha District, Nepal Gadha (album), a 1998 album by Chandrabindoo Gadaa, an Oromo self-governance system Garha/GADA, a Jain caste of India Gada...
- Oromo forefathers, in the time of Gadaa Melbaa in Mormor, Oromia. The au****ious day on which this last Mormor Day of Gadaa Melbaa - the Dark Time of starvation...
- homelands. Actual settlement of new territories would not begin until the Gadaa of Meslé. According to Bahrey, the earliest Oromo expansion occurred under...
- of his contributions to Oromo literature, he was given an honorary name 'Gadaa'.[citation needed] Gebreab worked as a journalist before becoming a full...