PROVERBS,SONGS FOLKTALES (An Anthology of Oromo Literature) (Paper Cover)

1.Oromo Wisdom Literature

2.Anthology

3.Dificulty of Selection

   3.1 For Proverbs
 
     
   3.2 For Songs

   3.3. For folktales

Introduction

When I had completed my five-volume series on Ethiopia Philosophy, which is based on five manuscripts written in the ancient Ethiopic Semitic language called ge-ez, mostly -in the XVI, XVII and XVIII centuries,' I was interested in investigating the wisdom 0f Ethiopia as expressed in its oral literature. For' this purpose I selected the Oromo people who speak a language which belongs to the extensive family of the so-called "Cushitic." languages, since the Oromo, having no written literature or language, were an ideal group for a study based on oral literature.