American Journal of Sociological Research

American Journal of Sociological Research is a peer-reviewed journal which gets an international referee board, mainly embodied from each individually expert professional on the social research fields. The journal contributes to all of the social sciences. It welcomes articles on all aspects of developments that contribute to the improvement of social science knowledge.

Asafa Jalata

Editorial Board Member of American Journal of Sociological Research

Professor, University of Tennessee, USA

Research Areas

Regional and Global Studies, Indigenous and Terrorism Studies, Race and Ethnicity, and Social and National Movements

Education

1990Ph.DSociology, State University of New York at Binghamton
1988M.A.Sociology, State University of New York at Binghamton.
1985M.S.Community Studies and Development, University of California, Davis
1980Graduate DiplomaEconomics, Karl Marx Higher Institute of Economics, Sofia, Bulgaria.
1978B.S.W.Addis Ababa (Finfinnee) University, Oromia (Ethiopia)

Experience

1990-1991Assistant Professor. Clinton Community College, Plattsburgh, New York
1990-1991Adjunct Professor. State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Visiting Assistant Professor. Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York
1985Research Assistant. State University of New York at Binghamton
1983-1985Research Assistant. University of California, Davis
1978-1980Research Sociologist. Planning, Evaluation and Budget Section, Arssi Rural Development Project, Oromia
1977Research Assistant. Socio-economic Study and Implementation Group of Forestry and Wild Life Development Authority, Oromia
1978-1980Regional Development Officer and Teacher. The Arssi Rural Development Project, Oromia (Ethiopia)
1976-1977Teacher. Horst Spingies High School, the Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus, Oromia (Ethiopia)

Academic Achievement

Recipient of the 2010 Senior Research and Creativity Award of the College of Arts and Sciences
Recognized as the Quest Scholar of the Week for Research and Publication, the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, March 2010
Recipient of 2009 UTK International Travel Fund, Sharing Cultures 2009: International Conference on Intangible Heritage, 30 May to June 2, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal
Recipient of fall 2007 Professional Development Leave Award
Recipient of the Certificate of Appreciation for the 2006 outstanding Contribution in the leadership of the Oromo Studies Association
Recipient of the 2002 Global Studies Initiative Research Fund
Recipient of the 2001 Oromo Studies Association Award for Scholarship and Service
Recipient of 1996-97 UTK Professional Career Advancement Award
Recipient of Graduate Fellowship, 1986-88, SUNY at Binghamton

Membership

Member, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece, 2011
Member, the Diversity General Scholarship committee, 2010
Member, the Dean Search Committee, the College of Arts & Sciences, 2010-2011
Member, the faculty Search Committee, the Department of Sociology, 2009
Member, the Diversity General Scholarship committee, 2009
Member, the Faculty Search Committee, the Department of Sociology, 2009-2010
Member, the Graduate Committee of the Department of Sociology, 2006-2010
Member, the theory exam committee of the Department of Sociology, 2006-present
Member, the Director Search Committee, the Africana Studies Program, 2004-2005
President, the Oromo Studies Association, 1992-1994
Chair, Tennessee Delegates, the National Summit of Africa, 1998-2001

Publications: Journals

[1]  2011 "My Conversation with SisaiIbssa," The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1, July, Special Issue, pp. 81-107.
[2]  2011 "The Oromo in Exile: Creating Knowledge and Promoting Social Justice,"Journal ofSocieties Without Borders/Sociologists Without Border/Sociologos Sin Fronteras: Human Rights & the Social Sciences6: 1, June, 33-72.
[3]  2011 "Terrorism from Above and Below in the Age of Globalization," Sociology Mind, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 1-15.
[4]  2011 "Imperfections in U.S. Foreign Policy toward Oromia and Ethiopia: Will The Obama Administration Introduce Change?The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol.4, no.3, March 2011, pp. 131-154.
[5]  2011 "Oromian Urban Centers: Consequences of Spatial Concentration of Power in Multinational Ethiopia, Journal of Oromos Studies, Vol. 17, No. 2, January 2011, pp. 39-74.
[6]  2010 "The Ethiopian State: Authoritarianism, Violence and Clandestine Genocide," The Journal of Pan African Studies, vol. 3, no.6, March, pp. 160-189.
[7]  2010 "The Tigrayan-led Ethiopian State, Repression, Terrorism and Gross HumanRights Violations in Oromia and Ethiopia," Horn of Africa, Vol. Xxviii, pp. 47-82.
[8]  2010 "Conceptualizing and Theorizing Terrorism in the Historical and Global Context," Humanity and Society, Vol. 34 (November): 317-349.
[9]  2009 "Being in and out of Africa: The Impact Duality of Ethiopianism," The Journal of Black Studies, 40: 189-214.
[10]  2009 "The Duality of Ethiopianism and its Impacts on Oromo society, "Vital Issues: The Journal of African American Speeches, Volume XVIII, No.1, pp.22-30.
[11]  2008"Struggling for Social Justice in the Capitalist World System: The Cases of African Americans, Oromos, Southern and Western Sudanese," SocialIdentities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture, Vol. 14, No. 3, May, pp. 363-388.
[12]  2008 "Foundations of a State in Oromia: Applying Gadaa Principles in the Twenty First Century," The Journal of Oromo Studies, Volume 15, Number 2, July : 133-189.
[13]  2007 "Ethiopia on the Fire of Competing Nationalisms: The Oromo People's Movement, the State, and the West," Horn of Africa, Vol. xxv, pp. 90-134.
[14]  2007 "The Place of the Oromo Diaspora in the Oromo National Movement: Lessons from the Agency of Old African Diaspora in the US," The Northeast Journal of African Studies, Volume, 10:2, pp. 131-160.
[15]  2007 "Oromo National Political Leadership: Assessing the Past and Mapping the Future," The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1, February/March, (With Harwood Schaffer), pp. 79-116.
[16]  2006 "The Impact of Ethiopian State Terrorism and Globalization on the Oromo National Movement," The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 13, nos. 1 & 2: 19-56.
[17]  2005 "State Terrorism and Globalization: The Cases of Ethiopia and Sudan," International Journal of Comparative Sociology; vol. 46 (1-2):79-102.
[18]  2003 "Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements in the Global Context," Social Justice, Vol. 30:1: 67-111.
[19]  2002 "Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Ethnocratic Politics," The Horn of Africa, Volume XX, pp, 11-58.
[20]  2002 "Revisiting the Black Struggle: Lessons for the 21st century," The Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 33, No. 1, September, PP. 86-116
[21]  2001 "Ethnonationalism and the Global 'Modernizing' Project," Nations and Nationalism: Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, Vol. 7, part 3, July: 385-405.
[22]  2000 "Two Liberation Movements Compared: Oromia & Southern Sudan," Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order, Vol. 27, No. 1: 152-174.
[23]  1999 "The Impact of a Racist U. S. Foreign Policy on the Oromo National Struggle," The Journal of Oromo Studies, Vol. 6, Numbers, 1 & 2: 49-89.
[24]  1997 "Oromo Nationalism in the New Global Context," The Journal of Oromo Studies, 4/1 & 2: 83-114.
[25]  1996 "The Struggle for Knowledge: The Case of Emergent Oromo Studies," The African Studies Review, 39/2: 95-123.
[26]  1995 "The Emergence of Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Reaction," Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order, 22/3: 165-189.
[27]  1993 "Ethiopia and Ethnic Politics: The Case of Oromo Nationalism," Dialectical Anthropology, 18: 381-402.
[28]  1993 "Sociocultural Origins of the Oromo National Movement in Ethiopia," The Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 21: 267-286. 1993 "The Oromo, Change and Continuity in Ethiopian Colonial Politics," The Journal of Oromo Studies, 1/1:17-27.
[29]  1991 "The Modern World-Economy, Ethiopian Settler Colonialism and the Oromos, 1880s-1930s," Horn of Africa, XIV/1 & 2: 59-80.

Publications: Conferences/Workshops/Symposiums

[1]  2011 "My Conversation with SisaiIbssa," The Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 24-26.
[2]  2011 "European Colonial Terrorism and the Incorporation of Africa into the Capitalist World System," the 5th Annual International Conference on Sociology, 9-12 May, Athens, Greece.
[3]  2011 "Indigenous Peoples and the Capitalist World System: Researching, Knowing and Promoting Social Justice," Social Justice and the University, Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, April 29-30.
[4]  2011 "The Impacts of Capitalists Incorporation and Terrorism on Indigenous Americans," Conference on Critical Ethnic Studies and the Future of Genocide,"University of California, Riverside, March 10-12.
[5]  2010 "The Oromo in Exile: Creating Knowledge and Promoting Social Justice," PaperPresented at the 2010 Association for Humanist Sociology, Santa Fe, New Mexico,November3-7 and at the 2010 African Studies Association, San Francisco, November 18-21.
[6]  2010 "Commemorating the Oromo Martyrs' Day," The OromoCommunity ofAtlanta, April 15
[7]  2010 "Oromummaa:National Identity and Politics of Liberation"The Oromo Liberation Front Eastern US Regional Mid-Year Conference, March 15.
[8]  2010 "What is Next for the Oromo People?,"4th Annual International Conferenceon Human Rights, April 12.
[9]  2010 "The Urgency of Building Oromo National Consensus," 2010 OSA Annual Conference, July 30-31.
[10]  2010 "The Impacts of Colonial Terrorism and Global Imperialism on Africa," Southeastern Regional Seminar in African Studies,October 2.
[11]  2010 "Imagining and Explaining Colonial Regionalism/Clannism in relation to Oromummaa (Oromo Nationalism)," Oromo Liberation Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, July 31.
[12]  2009 "Massive Human Rights Violations in Ethiopia and Sudan," The O'ConnorSeniors for Creative Learning of Knoxville, September 10.
[13]  2009 "Oromo Self-Knowledge for Building Organizational Capacity," TheOromia Community of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, October 10.
[14]  2009 "Ethiopia: External legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and State Terrorism,"(With Harwood Schaffer), Oromo Studies Association, Twenty-third Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia State University, August 12.
[15]  2009 "The Struggle of the Oromo to Preserve an indigenous Democracy," Sharing Cultures: International Conference on Intangible Heritage, Pico Island, Azores, Portugal, May 29-June 1.
[16]  2009 "Shortcomings in U.S. Foreign Policy toward Oromia andEthiopia: Obama Administration Introduce Change?" Paper presented at theOromo Studies Association Midyear Conference, Howard University, April 4.
[17]  2009 "Political Activism and Networking for Empowering Oromia," The Washington Oromo Community, Washington, DC, February 27.
[18]  2009 "The Global Oromo Activist Network," The Mini Conference of theOromo Liberation Front," Washington, DC, February 28.
[19]  2008 "Increasing Political Activism and Mobilization: Building OromoHuman Agency and Human Power for Liberation," Paper presented to the Oromo Community of Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 29.
[20]  2008 "Faces of Terrorism in the Age of Globalization: Terrorism from above and below," Paper presented at the Oak Ridge Institute for Continued Learning Philosophical Society, November 7.
[21]  2008 "The Oromo National Movement at a Crossroads: Towards Total Victory or Total Defeat," The Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 28-29.
[22]  2007 "The Meles Regime, Political Repression, and Terrorism in Oromia and Ethiopia," Paper presented at the Symposium organized by Hornof African Americans for Peace on "Human Rights Abuses and GenocideCommitted by the TPLF Minority Government of Ethiopia," Minneapolis,Minnesota, April 13.
[23]  2007 "External Legitimacy, Authoritarianism, and State Terrorism: The Triple Enemies of Peace and Development in Ethiopia," The50th Annual Conference of the African Studies Association, New York, October 18-21.
[24]  2007 "Applying Gada (Oromo Democracy) in Constructing the State In the 21stCentury Oromia," The 2007 Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 28-29.
[25]  2007 "Ethiopia: The State of Terror and War in the Horn of Africa,"Paper Presented at Eritrean Festival, July 11, Washington, DC.
[26]  2007 "Commemorating Oromo Martyrs' Day," Paper Presented at the Oromo Community of Washington, DC, and Atlanta, April 14 and 21.
[27]  2007 "The Concept of Oromummaa and Identity Formation in Contemporary Oromo Society," The Oromo Studies Association Mid-Year Meeting, Howard University, Washington, DC, July 14.
[28]  2007 "The Oromo National Movement: Where was it and where is it now?" The Oromo Liberation Front Semi-Annual Conference, Seattle, Washington, March 3-4.
[29]  2007 "The duality of Ethiopianism and its impacts on Oromos," Presented at the Martin Luther King Holiday Human Rights Symposium and ConflictResolution," Historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, January 11.
[30]  2007 "Oromummaa fi Dargagoo Oromoo," The Oromia Youth Association, Minneapolis, January 7.
[31]  2007 "Deepening of Oromummaa and Oromo Politics: What should done to Accomplish victory?" Paper Presented to the Ohio Oromo Community, June 4.
[32]  2006 "Ethiopia on the Fire of Competing Nationalisms: The Oromo People's Movement, the State, and the West," The Forum of Ethnicity and National Identity, organized by the Ethiopian Students Association at Harvard University, November 12
[33]  2006 "Oromummaa as the Main aspect of Oromo Nationalism," The Global Conference of Internet Paltalk, December 11.
[34]  2006 "Leadership and Organizational Issues in the Oromo National Movement," The 2006 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, UniversityMinnesota, Minneapolis, July 29-30.
[35]  2005 "The Current State of Oromo Politics: What should be done about it?" The2005 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, Washington, DC,Howard University, August 27-28.
[36]  2005 "The Oromo national Struggle," The Global Conference of Internet Paltalk," September 17.
[37]  2005 "Struggling for Social Justice in the Age of Globalization: The Cases of African Americans, Oromos, and Southern Sudanese," The 2005 Annual Conference of the Global Studies Association, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
[38]  2004 "Being and Out of Africa: The Duality of Ethiopianism and its Consequences" The African Studies Association Annual Conference,New Orleans, LA, November 11-14.
[39]  2004 "Oromo Political Culture and Leadership," The 2004 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, August 28-29, Atlanta, Georgia.
[40]  2004 "Oromia: A Nation in Search of Freedom and Democracy in the GlobalEconomy," The Oromo Community in Washington, Seattle, September 25.
[41]  2004 "Globalization and the Oromo national Struggle," Bergen, Norway, October 1.
[42]  2004 "Globalization and its impacts on Indigenous Peoples: The case of the Oromo ofNortheast Africa," Westminster Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, Tennessee
[43]  2004 "Oromo Political Culture," The Oromo Community in Philadelphia, November27.
[44]  2003 "Oromummaa and Diversity in the Current Era of Globalization," The 2003 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, Howard University, August 2-3.
[45]  2003 "The Oromo Diaspora," The World History Association Annual Conference, Georgia State University, Atlanta, June 27-29.
[46]  2003 "Rethinking the Ethiopian State: The Consequences of the Privatization and Ethnicization/Racialization of Public Power," The 2003 African Studies Association Annual Conference, Boston, Oct 30-Nov 2.
[47]  2002 "The Danger of Ethiopian State-terrorism and Genocide against the Oromo in the Information and Technology Age: Lessons for other Africans," The 45th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, December 5-8, Washington, DC.
[48]  2002 "The Oromo and their National Struggle in the Horn of Africa," Lake Hills Presbyterian Church, Alcoa High Way Knoxville, October 13.
[49]  2002 "Oromummaa: Nationalism in Transition or in Stagnation?" The 2002 Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Howard University, July 27-28.
[50]  2002 "The State of Oromo Nationalism, Problems of the Oromo Struggle, and Strategies for the Liberation of Oromia," Presented at the Regional Seminar of the Oromo Liberation Front, The University of Minnesota, April 12.
[51]  2002 "Oromian Cities in Ethiopia: The Quality of Life, Community Development, and Public Service," Paper Presented at the Global Cities Symposium, The Department of Sociology, The University of Memphis,March 21, 2002.
[52]  2001 "Lessons for the Oromo from the Agency of 'Old' African Diaspora in the US," The 44th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Houston, Texas, Nov. 15-18.
[53]  2001 "The Organizational Impact of Uneven Development of Oromo Nationalism," The 2001 Annual Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, Minnesota University, Minneapolis, July 28-29.
[54]  2001 "The Process of State Formation in the Horn of Africa in Comparative Perspective," (by invitation), Columbia University, April 3.
[55]  2001 "The Impacts of State Terrorism, Hidden Genocide, Global Powers on the Oromo in Ethiopia," (by invitation), A Seminar on Causes and Solutions for Political and Economic and Human Rights Problems Facing the Oromo People within Regional and Global Context, Howard University, Washington, D.C., March 17.
[56]  2001 "Identifying and Solving the Internal Problems of the Oromo National Movement," (by invitation), OLF Regional Conference, Washington, D.C., March 18.
[57]  2000 "The Impact of Ethiopian Colonialism on the Oromo Political Behavior," The 14th Conference of the Oromo Studies Association, York University, Toronto/Ontario, Canada July 29-30.
[58]  2000 "The Intensification of attack on Oromo Peoplehood and Rights: The Violence of the Tigrayan Ethnocratic State and the Tyranny of Globalization," The 43rd Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, November 15-18.
[59]  1998 "Oromo Organizational problems in North America and Possible Solutions," The Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Oromo Studies Association, The University of Washington, Seattle, July 25-26.
[60]  1997 "US-Sponsored Ethiopian 'Democracy' and State Terrorism," Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Oromo Studies Association, University of Minnesota, August 9-10; The 40th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, 13-16 November, Columbus, Ohio.
[61]  1997 "Oromia: The Struggle for National self-determination Revisited," Paper Presented at the Seminar of the 23rd Congress of the Union of Oromo in North America, Washington, D.C., August 2-3, 1997 (by invitation).
[62]  1997 "The Oromo National Struggle and Global Capitalism," The Seminar of the 23rd Annual Congress of the Union of Oromo Students in Europe, Berlin, Germany, July 18-20.
[63]  1997 Lectured and led the discussion on July's People (South African racial relations) (Nadine Gorier) for the U.T.K. International Cultural and Literary Colloquy sponsored by the U.T.K. Division of Student Affairs, the Center for International Education and the College of Arts and Sciences, April 21.
[64]  1997 "Oromo Nationalism in the New Global Context," The Symposium of the Union of Oromo in North America, Washington, D.C., April 19.
[65]  1997 "Ethnonationalism of Indigenous People and the Global Modernizing Project," The Symposium of World Congresses of 4th Action Research, Action Learning and Process-Management, and 8th Participatory Action-Research, Cartagena, Colombia, May 31 to June 5.
[66]  1996 "Nationalism and Liberation Politics in Oromia," Tenth Annual Meeting of the Oromo Studies Association, Howard University, Washington, D.C., August 3-4.
[67]  1995 "Two National Liberation Movements Compared: Oromia and the Southern Sudan," Thirty-eight Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Orlando, Florida, Nov. 3-6.
[68]  1995 "Reinventing an Oromian State: A Theoretical Analysis," Ninth Annual Meeting of the Oromo Studies Association, July 22-24, Washington, D.C.
[69]  1995 "The Condition of the Oromo Struggle in North America," Ninth Annual Meeting of the Oromo Studies Association, July 22-24, Washington, D.C.
[70]  1995 "African American Nationalism and Development," Southern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, April 6-9, Atlanta, Georgia.
[71]  1994 "Toward a Theory of Cultural Reconstruction for Liberation and Development of Oromia," Presidential Address at the 1994 Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, the University of Toronto, Toronto, July 30-31.
[72]  1994 "The Imperial Interstate System in Action: Soviet and American Policies toward Ethiopia Compared," Thirty-seventh Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, November 3-6.
[73]  1994 "The Current Status of the Oromo National Movement," Twentieth Annual Congress of the Oromo Students in Europe, Berlin, Germany, July 15-17
[74]  1993 "Presidential Address for the 1993 Oromo Studies Annual Conference," The 1993 Oromo Studies Association Conference, the University of Toronto, Ontario, July 31 to August 1.
[75]  1993 "Oromo Revolutionaries and Oromo National Power," Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 31 to August 1.
[76]  1992 "Oromia: Political Change, Continuity and Liberation," Thirty-fifth Annual Meeting of African Studies Association, Nov. 20-23, Seattle, Washington.
[77]  1992 "Oromia and Ethiopia: The Politics of Change, Accommodation and Conflict," The Oromo Studies Conference, the University of Minnesota, August 1-2.
[78]  1991 "Oromo Music and Nationalism," The Oromo Studies Association Annual Conference, Toronto University, Toronto, Canada, August 3-4.
[79]  1989 "Oromia: From Resistance to Decolonization," The African Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, Georgia, November 2-5.
[80]  1989 "Oromia: Nationalism and Revolution," Oromo Conference, York University, Ontario, Canada, August 12-13.
[81]  1988 "Historical Discontinuity and Continuity: From the Gada Government to the Oromo Liberation Front," Oromo Conference, Howard University, Washington, D. C., August 6-7.
[82]  1987 "The Process of Colonization and Decolonization of Oromia, 1868-1987: Contradictions in the Incorporation of the Horn of Africa into the World-Economy," The Annual Conference of Stanford-Berkeley Joint Center for African Studies, Stanford University, May 8.

Publications: Books/Book Chapters

[1]  2010 Contending Nationalisms of Oromia and Ethiopia: Struggling for Statehood, Sovereignty, and Multinational Democracy, (Binghamton: Global Academic Publishing, Binghamton University, State University of New York).
[2]  2007 Oromummaa: Oromo Culture, Identity and Nationalism, (Atlanta, GA: Oromia Publishing Company).
[3]  2007 Africa up to Sixteenth Century: Introduction to African Studies, edited with Perry Kyles and AddisuTolesa, (Boston: Pearson).
[4]  2007 Africa since the Sixteenth Century: Introduction to African Studies, edited with Perry Kyles and Addisu Tolesa, (Boston: Pearson).
[5]  2005 Oromia & Ethiopia: State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict, 1868-2004, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press). (Reprinted with one revised and expanded chapter and one new chapter).
[6]  2004 State Crises, Globalization, and National Movements in the Northeast Africa, (edited book, with my two chapters), (London: Routledge).
[7]  2001 Fighting against the Injustice of the State and Globalization: Comparing the African American and Oromo Movements, (Palgrave, Global Publishing at St. Martin's Press).
[8]  1998 Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse: The Search for Freedom and Democracy, edited, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press).
[9]  1993 Oromia & Ethiopia: State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict, 1868-1992, (Boulder and London: Lynne Rienner Publishers).
[10]  2009 "The Struggle of the Oromo to preserve and Indigenous Democracy," Sharing Cultures 2009, edited by Sergio Lira, RogerioAmoeda, Cristina Pinherio, Joao Pinheiro, and Fernando Oliveira, (Barcelos, Portugal: Green Lines Institute for Sustainable Development), pp. 467-475
[11]  2009 "The Place of the Oromo Diaspora in the Oromo National Movement: Lessons from the Agency of 'Old' African Diaspora in the US," Contested Terrain: Essays on Oromo Studies, Ethiopianist Discourse and Politically Engaged Scholarship, edited by Ezekiel Gebissa, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press).
[12]  2006 "Ethnonationalism and the Global 'Modernizing' Project," Globalization and Violence, Part III, edited by Paul W. James, (London: Sage Publications).
[13]  2006 "The Oromo Movement and the Crisis of the Ethiopian State," ArrestedDevelopment in Ethiopia, editors, Seyoum Hameso and Mohammed Hassen, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press), pp.279-306.
[14]  2006"Terrorism and Globalization: The Cases of Ethiopia and Sudan,"Terrorism: A New Testament, (Toronto: de Sitter Publications), pp. 79-102.
[15]  2004 "The Process of State Formation in the Horn of Africa in Comparative Perspective," State Crises, Globalization, and National Movements in the Horn of Africa, A. Jalata, (ed.), (London: Routledge), pp.1-29.
[16]  2004 "Two National Movements Compared: Southern Sudanese and Oromia," State Crises, Globalisation, and National Movements in the Horn of Africa, (London: Routledge), pp. 78-100.
[17]  2000 "US-Sponsored Ethiopian-Democracy and State Terrorism," Crisis and Terror in the Horn of Africa: Autopsy of Democracy and Human Rights, edited by Pietro Toggia, Pat Lauderdale, and Abebe Zegeye, (Burlington, VT: Ashagte), pp. 64-89.
[18]  1998 "Oromo Nationalism and Ethiopian Reaction," Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse, edited by A. Jalata, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press), pp. 1-26.
[19]  1998 "The Cultural Root of Oromo Nationalism," Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press), pp. 27-49.
[20]  1998 "The Struggle for Knowledge: The Case of Emergent Oromo Studies," Oromo Nationalism and the Ethiopian Discourse, (Lawrenceville, NJ: The Red Sea Press), pp. 253-290.
[21]  1995 "African American Nationalism, Development, and Afrocentricity: Implications for the twenty-first Century," Molefi Kete and Afrocentricity: In Praise and Criticism, edited by Dhyana Ziegler, (Nashville, TN.: Winston-Derek Publishers Group), pp. 153-174.
[22]  1995 "Poverty, Powerlessness and the Imperial Interstate System in the Horn of Africa," Disaster and Development in the Horn of Africa, edited by John Sorenson, (New York: Macmillan/St. Martin's), pp. 31-75.