Gadaa (Oromo: Gadaa; literally: era) is the indigenous democratic system of governance used by the Oromos in Ethiopia and northern Kenya. It is also practiced...

Oromo people traditionally used the gadaa system as the primary form of governance. A leader is elected by the gadaa system and their term lasts eight years...

well-developed age-grade system known as the Gadaa System. [Another example is that of the Maasai] Gadaa through history came to organize social life...

Abdulkariem Ibrahim Hamid, more commonly known by his nom de guerre Jaarraa Abbaa Gadaa, was an Ethiopian guerrilla commander and one of the first leaders of the...

the same name, Boorana. The Boorana people are notable for practicing the Gadaa system without interruption. Through the Gadha system, the Boranas are believed...

sets having a judicial function, for example. The Oromo people and their Gadaa System are also another good example of a society whose social organization...

homelands. Actual settlement of new territories would not begin until the Gadaa of Meslé. According to Bahrey, the earliest Oromo expansion occurred under...

support the democratic Gadaa system of the Oromo. The Qaalluu/Qaalliti have the power to give or withhold blessings to the Gadaa leadership as they see...

in Siraha District, Nepal Gadha (album), a 1998 album by Chandrabindoo Gadaa, an Oromo self-governance system Garha/GADA, a Jain caste of India Gada...

Oromo forefathers, in the time of Gadaa Melbaa in Mormor, Oromia. The auspicious day on which this last Mormor Day of Gadaa Melbaa - the Dark Time of starvation...