Waqo gutu biography of alberta

Ethiopian rebel and Oromo nationalist

GeneralWaqo Gutu Usu ( – 3 February ) was an Ethiopian revolutionary and leader of one of the earlier Oromo resistance fighter movements; the Bale Revolt, which in the s had fought against the feudalistic system in place in the Ethiopian Empire.

He was elected chairman of the United Liberation Forces of Oromia in In , Gutu died in a Nairobi hospital, survived by 20 sons and 17 daughters.^{[1][failed verification]}

Life

Waqo Gutu also has 45 children and many grandchildren including Aisha Abdinoor Waqo Gutu & Sumeya Abdinoor Waqo Gutu.

He was born to an Oromo father and a Somali mother.^[2] Little is known about his early schooling or ideological basis for his rebellion against Emperor Haile Selassie and the regimes that followed the monarch’s ouster and murder.

Assessments of Waqo Gutu vary greatly over his role as "founder" of Oromo separatism. However, according to historians (erroneously) ,