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Notes
Chapter I
1. Because of the politics involved there is disagreement on the size of the Oromo popu-
lation in the Ethiopian empire. In The Journal of Oromo Studies, vol. 4, nos. 1 and 2, Fey-
isa Demie notes that “Oromia [the Oromo country] had an estimated population of 13
million in 1970.The most recent census in 1984 gave a total population of 21 million.
By the year 2004, Oromia’s population is expected to reach 34 million.The forecast is
that the total population can easily exceed 39 million by the year 2014” (p. 165). How-
ever, some scholars, government census, and The World Almanac and Book of Facts (1999,
p.787) estimate the Oromo population at 40 percent of the Ethiopian population.
2. Benjamin Quarles, The Negro in the Making of America (New York: Macmillan, 1987), p.
34.
3. Ibid.
4. Ibid., p. 22.
5. Ibid., p. 7.
6. For discussion on maroon settlements, see Richard Price, ed., Maroon Societies: Rebel
Slave Communities in the Americas, 2nd ed. (Baltimore: John Hopkins, 1979).
7. See Julian B. Roebuck and Komanduri S. Murty, Historically Black Colleges and Universi-
ties:Their Place in American Higher Education (Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1993).
8. For details, see Martial de Slaviac, Un People antique au pays de Menelik: Les Galla, Paris,
1901; Bonnie K. Holcomb and Sisai Ibssa, The Invention of Ethiopia:The Making of De-
pendent Colonial State in Northeast Africa (Trenton, N.J.:The Red Sea Press, 1990);Asafa
Jalata, Oromia and Ethiopia: State Formation and Ethnonational Conflict, 1868–1992 (Boul-
der: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1993).
9. Martial de Slavic, Ibid.
10. Oromos call their region or country Oromia. Oromia occupies three-fourths of the
Ethiopian empire. Currently, it is officially considered one of the administrative regions
of Ethiopia.
11. See The National Summit on Africa, Draft National Policy Plan of Action for U.S.-Africa
Relations in the 21st Century, February 16–20, 2000.
12. Theda Skocpol, Social Revolutions in the Modern World (Cambridge: Cambridge Univer-
sity Press, 1994), p. 303.
13. Ibid., p. 333.
14. See Andre Gunder Frank, World Accumulation, 1492–1789 (New York: Monthly Review
Press, 1978); Karl Marx, Capital, vol. I, ed. F. Engels (New York: International Publish-
ers, 1967);Walter Rodney, How Europe Underdeveloped Africa (Washington, D.C.: Howard
University Press, 1972); Immanuel Wallerstein, The Politics of the World-Economy: The
States, the Movements, and Civilizations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984);
Immanuel Wallerstein, The Modern World-System III:The Second Era of Great Expansion of
the Capitalist World-Economy, 1730–1840 (San Diego: Sage, 1988).