Oromo GADAA: Eighteen Principles

Oromo Democracy: GADAA
Typography
  • Smaller Small Medium Big Bigger
  • Default Helvetica Segoe Georgia Times

 

 

  1. The Premise that the Laws Stand Above All Men
  2. Accountability: The Role of Confession and Penalty

  3. Subordination of Warriors to Deliberative Assemblies

  4. Man Made Laws and The Great Law Makers

    Daawwee Gobboo (1706) 
    Makoo Bilii (1580)
     
  5. Supreme Authority of the General Assembly
  6. Government by Council and Assemblies - Seniority and Equality

  7.  

    Term of Office and Measurement of Time

  8.  

    Limitation of Office to a Single Term

  9.  

    A Period of Testing: Time Gap between Election and Investiture

  10.  

    Use of History as Precedent and Ethical Guide (Dhacch’i)

  11.  

    Hereditary and Elective Leadership

  12.  

    Principle of Staggered Succession

  13.  

    Principle of Alliance of Alternative Groups

  14.  

    The Problem of Discontinuity of Authority

  15.  

    Principle of Balanced Opposition

  16.  

    Distribution of Power across Generations

  17.  

    Separation of Powers: Functional and Spatial

  18.  

    Separation of the Ritual and Political Domain (Mura and Ebba)


    Source: Bokku, Dirribu Demissie. Oromo Wisdom in Black Civilization. April 2011, Finfinnee Printing & Publishing, Oromia
Sign up via our free email subscription service to receive notifications when new information is available.