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Promote internal Critics — live a living idea
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Promote those who meddle in what does not concern them!

I want to bring to your attention the same old recommendation that I have frequently been promoting in public. Oromo elite’s whole stuff, again I dare to recommend, badly needs public internal critics— of two kinds. They are not without appealing traits, however.
Standing first are critics whose persona, traditional wisdom & knowledge and ‘just’ as well as courage to speak the truth could manage to hail them authority as a public critics and enjoy them a comfortable majority of Oromo elites of any view’s and vision’s will. Unless we contend to deny that we have relegated them cold-bloodedly, different traditional/indigenous institutions of Oromo and institutions/communities wouldn’t have failed to produce them.

On the second row stand completely different types as compared to the first. It doesn’t matter and not a matter of priority to them whether their persona, wisdom & knowledge and ‘just’ could render them authority as a public critics and enjoy a comfortable majority of elites’ will or not. But, they should always be outsiders; live in but off Oromo; in a self-imposed exile and on the margins of their Oromo society. They are a type of individuals for whom no worldly power is too intimidating to immune. He/she speaks to, as well as for, a public, necessarily in public, and is properly on the side of the dispossessed, the unrepresented and the forgotten. These are what Jean Paul Sartre calls “someone who meddles in what does not concern her/him.”

But we can still bisect them based on their terms with establishment— pro-establishment and anti- establishment. Both of these are mostly from Academia, Policy institutions and execution communities.

An idea can’t make a nation but a discussed one; and a discussed idea can’t make a nation but a winner synthetic idea; and a winner synthetic idea can’t make a nation but the one that we should dare to fall in line with, however it contradicts the assumptions we hold without examining. That we act up on.

This is, I think, how Oromo could live a living idea, maintains unity and walks in brisk forward.

Break the shackles!