Arsi Oromo

Arsi Oromo is one of the clans of the Oromo people inhabiting the Oromia Region, mainly in Arsi Zone and partly in Bale Zone and Misraq Shewa Zone. They claim to have descended from a single individual called Arse. The Arsi in all zones speak the same language, Afan Oromo (which is sometimes called Afan Arsi), and share same culture and traditions.The Arsi have developed a concept of Arsooma which is roughly translated to Arsihood. This has provided Arsi with identity that has been passing to clans and other groupings for a long period of time. [cite web | url = http://www.africa.kyoto-u.ac.jp/kiroku/asm_normal/abstracts/pdf/26-1/26-1-2.pdf| title = The Functions of African Oral Arts: The Arsi-Oromo Oral Arts in Focus | format = pdf| publisher =Center for African Area Studies, Kyoto University | accessmonthday = June 27 |accessyear = 2008 ] Historically, the Arsi Oromo are known for their fierce resistance against the Ethiopian conquest of 1881-6, when Menelik II conducted several unsuccessful invasion campaigns against the rich and fertile Oromo territory of Arsi [cite web | url = http://arsioromo.blogspot.com/| title = The Arsi| format = html| publisher =Arsioromo.blogspot.com | accessmonthday = June 27 |accessyear = 2008 ] . The Arsi Oromo put up stiff resistance against an enemy equipped with Modern European firearms, until they were defeated in 1886. [cite web | url = http://www.oromia.org/Articles/abbas_part1.htm | title = The Arsi Resistance Against the Shoan Colonial Conquest | format = html | publisher = Journal of Oromo Studies | accessmonthday = June 17 | accessyear = 2008 ]

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