The name is also spelled Haacaaluu Hundeessaa. I wish I could say I’m surprised that nobody’s ever mentioned him or the riots his death caused on this site. A lot of his songs were protest songs tied with Oromo rights and nationalism and all, and the Hachalu Hundessa riots were a pretty major political event in Ethiopia this decade that get into this very long-lasted ethnic conflict between Oromo and Amhara people, which I don’t really know how to feel about. This ethnic conflict is even manifested in how leftist organizations in Ethiopia have different perspectives on the process of how the Ethiopian state was formed, with Amhara organizations generally identifying it as a nation-building process and Oromo organizations generally identifying it as a colonial process of national oppression. This bitter, fundamental split in the Ethiopian left is key for understanding a lot of 20th and 21st century Ethiopian and Eritrean history, and I regret to say that I don’t really understand it, even Prolewiki is treating it as “two households both alike in dignity”. Maybe some day I’ll understand the clusterfuck that is Ethiopian ethnic politics, though. That day is just not today.

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