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<p>Chapter 1:&nbsp;Introduction.- Chapter 2:&nbsp;Theory of Quality Leadership.- Chapter 3:&nbsp;Baro and Gudina Tumsa: From Early Life to Adulthood.- Chapter 4:&nbsp;College Life and Political Involvement.- Chapter 5:&nbsp;Baro Tumsa’s Involvement with the MTA and Political Activism.- Chapter 6:&nbsp;Professionalism, Political Activism, and Networking.- Chapter 7:&nbsp;Baro and the Founding of the OLF.- Chapter 8:&nbsp;Political Opportunities, Challenges, and the Survival of OLF.- Chapter 9:&nbsp;The OLF: Baro’s Legacy, Long Journey, Achievements,<br>
and Resilience.</p>

<p><strong>Asafa Jalata&nbsp;</strong>is the Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professor and Professor of Sociology and Global and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As a leading social scientist in the fields of indigenous and human rights investigations, critical race studies, Africana and global studies, and nationalism and terrorism studies, Professor Jalata has engaged in studying and explaining the chains of cultural, historical, and political-economic forces of the capitalist world system that have shaped racial inequality, development, underdevelopment, terrorism, and social movements on local, regional, and global levels. He is a worldwide renowned scholar in Oromo studies and these fields. Professor Jalata has published and edited fifteen books, eighteen book chapters, eight dozen refereed articles in national, regional, and global refereed journals, and several public journal articles.</p>

<p>This book identifies and examines the role of Baro Tumsa in clandestinely bringing together a few Oromo nationalists of diverse backgrounds from all over Oromia, the Oromo country, to establish the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) between the late 1960s and the mid- 1970s in Oromia and Ethiopia. The Haile Selassie government's destruction of Oromo movements, mainly the Macha-Tulama Self-Help Association (MTA), was an immediate reason for the birth of the front. While most Oromos have supported and sympathized with this liberation organization, the colonizers and their agents have vilified and attacked it to make the Oromo society leaderless. For almost a half-century, the OLF has been struggling to uproot Ethiopian (Amhara-Tigray) settler colonialism and its institutions from Oromia to end the domination and exploitation of the Oromo. The book also examines the roles of leaders and social movements in organizing oppressed peoples for collective actions by creating organizations that have visions and missions to liberate themselves. It is a case study of global social movements and leadership studies.</p>

<p><strong>Asafa Jalata&nbsp;</strong>is the Betty Lynn Hendrickson Professor and Professor of Sociology and Global and Africana Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. As a leading social scientist in the fields of indigenous and human rights investigations, critical race studies, Africana and global studies, and nationalism and terrorism studies, Professor Jalata has engaged in studying and explaining the chains of cultural, historical, and political-economic forces of the capitalist world system that have shaped racial inequality, development, underdevelopment, terrorism, and social movements on local, regional, and global levels. He is a worldwide renowned scholar in Oromo studies and these fields. Professor Jalata has published and edited fifteen books, eighteen book chapters, eight dozen refereed articles in national, regional, and global refereed journals, and several public journal articles.</p>

Helps to understand the role of Baro and his colleagues in creating the OLF and developing Oromo nationalism Identifies relevant theories of leadership and uses them to examine various aspects of Baro's life Provides insight into the relationship between social agencies and leaders by examining the Oromo national struggle

<p>“Based on social scientific research and interviews with those involved directly in forming the OLF, Professor Asafa Jalata reveals the significant role of Baro Tumsa in the Oromo national struggle. Baro Tumsa's history is the history of the OLF and the Oromo nation's liberation struggle. The book is captivating because it explains many new things that most Oromos and others do not know about Baro and the organization I have served for over half my life. It also describes the endeavors and sacrifices of the brilliant sons and daughters of the Oromo nation for freedom and democracy. Thanks to the few Oromo intellectuals like Professor Asafa Jalata who are working relentlessly to pull Oromo history out of the tragedy of living in the ignorance and darkness of Ethiopian settler colonialism.” (Dhugaasaa Bakakko, Member of the OLF Executive Committee and Former Commander of the Oromo Liberation Army)<br>
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“Asafa Jalata’s masterful political biography of Baro Tumsa, a pioneer in the Oromo Liberation movement, is essential to understanding the movement’s decades-long struggle. &nbsp;Weaving together previous histories, archival data, and his interviews, Jalata paints a complex picture of ethnonational oppression, organizational genesis, and Indigenous democratic thinking by focusing on the accomplishments of this crucial liberatory figure. &nbsp;Jalata’s global analysis details how external and internal imperialism has long influenced the Oromo struggle, integrating structural analysis and the capacity of individuals to organize for their and others’ liberation. &nbsp;This book provides a model of academic rigor and liberatory inspiration.” (Jon Shefner, Herbert Family Professor of Excellence, Director, Community-University, Research Collaboration Initiative (CURCI), Department of Sociology, University of Tennessee – Knoxville)<br>
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“Writing the biography of Baro Tumsa and connecting his life and death to the legacy of OLF and the global struggle for human rights constructs a means of understanding 21st-century struggles for social justice and democracy in Africa and worldwide. By discussing various Western perspectives of political leadership and organization and showing how these perspectives are informed and critiqued by indigenous knowledge based on Oromo culture and language, the author helps reclaim and affirm historical spaces distorted by settler colonialism. Jalata accomplishes the formidable task of understanding a clandestine organizational resistance movement through historical and documentary research and interviews with activists and family members now living in Oromia and the diaspora. This work gives voice to the experiences of the Oromo people, marginalized by repressive political and economic systems, who participated in the struggle and whose legacy continues to offer a model of democratic governance.” (Wanda Rushing, Professor Emerita, University of Memphis)</p>