How Afars Benefited from Oromos Slave Trade

[Jabuutawi]

The port city of Tadjoura in what's now in the Republic of Djibouti used to be a vibrant port in shipping Oromos to the Arabian peninsula. Every year 40,000 Oromos from the hinterland were shipped out of Tadjoura, an Afar settlement, as slaves and concubines to the Middle East and beyond.

-Cited by explorer Henri Lambert.

La génocidaire traite négrière afare, quels chiffres? Les estimations de l'explorateur français Henri Lambert: 40 000 esclaves oromos exportés annuellement du port négrier de Tadjourah vers les pays de la péninsule arabique. Nous vous laissons le soin de faire le calcul pour connaître le volume global de cette traite qui a duré plus de deux siècles.
« Avant de partir de Tadjoura, j’assistai aux préparatifs du départ d’une caravane composée de mille chameaux. Elle allait dans le Choa et le pays des Gallas, deux provinces éthiopiennes, et ne devant être de retour qu’en bout de 4 mois. Il leur fallait 40 jours pour arriver dans le Choa, en faisant environ douze milles par jour. Suivant des renseignements très exacts, pris à des sources différentes, j’estime à 40 mille chaque année le nombre d’esclaves vendus. La caravane que je vis partir à Tadjoura devait ramener du Choa un millier de ces malheureux noirs. » (Cité par Simonin L. dans un texte intitulé « Voyages de M. Henri Lambert, agent consulaire de France à Aden, assassiné près des îles Moussah, le 4 juin 1859 », publié dans l’hebdomadaire français « Le Tour du Monde », 1862, VI, p.65 à 74).
A suivre: Tadjourah, un immense cimetière à ciel ouvert. Un génocide inouï!

[Jabuutawi]

What's beyond belief is that Oromos were sold as slaves as late as the 19th century. Did Menilik benefit from this trade with the Afars? Was there mutual understanding and benefit to selling Oromos btwn. Afars and Menelik Abyssinia? Only time will tell.



Young Oromo children waiting at Tadjourah dock to be boarded on ships headed to the Middle East, no doubt to become sex slaves for the perverted Arabs:

[PrinceNugaalHawd]

Ofcourse Menelik & Abyssinia benefited, but there were also Habasha slaves.

[Jabuutawi]

This is the route Oromo slaves took to Tadjourah and Massawa, both Afar slave centers. Note, no Oromos came through Ciise land. All this happened in the 19th century, perhaps even early 20th century, up to Meneliks death in 1913.



Henry de Monfreid was a French author, born 1879, died 1974. He had firsthand account (eye witness) to these brutal practices. There was actual interview done (voice recording) of his time in Djibouti and Ethiopia whereby he recounts what he saw.



Later I will post of 10-14 years old Oromo boys being castrated before shipped across to the Middle East. An excerpt from a book called "Le Monde de Eunuques."

[Waachis]

I am sure you were very happy to see the misery of some Oromos, subhanAllah, at the cruelty of your heart akhi.
May Allah soften your heart and remove any hatred you have for Muslims from your heart.
same du'a goes for the angry ogadeni brother django. as long as you guys establish salah, and are not of a crooked/deviant belief system [like the rafidah shias], you are my brothers and i love you for Allah's sake.

[Jabuutawi]

This thread accomplishes two-fold, educate forumers that visit this site to know the history we lived through in the Horn of Africa, and to show Afars are not innocent folks to be defended from Ciise. I am sure most Ethios feel we (Ciise) unfairly treat them, wrong!

Do you know what they were doing to Somalis during colonial times? How many Ciise lost their lives to Ali Aref led puppet government in the 50s, 60s and up to independence in 1977? He is still alive and living in Djibouti. That is how forgiving we are. Read our Law (Xeer Ciise) to understand where I am coming from.

Afars make up 5% of the population in the Rep. of Djibouti, we can literally wipe them off from the face of the earth, but we are better than that.

They are, with the approval of Addis, killing Ciise in Ethiopia. Thank God, we are strong enough and large enough to withstand an entire ethnic group. They are feeling major pain now. Just watch, they will go like way of the dodo if the stay on this path. It is already happening.

[Django]

I am sure you were very happy to see the misery of some Oromos, subhanAllah, at the cruelty of your heart akhi.
May Allah soften your heart and remove any hatred you have for Muslims from your heart.
same du'a goes for the angry ogadeni brother django. as long as you guys establish salah, and are not of a crooked/deviant belief system [like the rafidah shias], you are my brothers and i love you for Allah's sake.

Dont blame Djibouti boy.

You were the one that was taking the pride that menelik was one of your people and that Ras gobena united Oromos.Well It was Ras gobena that sold your folks to slavery being a servant of Menelik.

Please stop with your crocodile tears.It was Oromos that facilitated the slave trade of their fellow oromos.

Just like West Africans facilitated the slave trade of their fellow West Africans into the Americas.

[Waachis]

I am sure you were very happy to see the misery of some Oromos, subhanAllah, at the cruelty of your heart akhi.
May Allah soften your heart and remove any hatred you have for Muslims from your heart.
same du'a goes for the angry ogadeni brother django. as long as you guys establish salah, and are not of a crooked/deviant belief system [like the rafidah shias], you are my brothers and i love you for Allah's sake.

Dont blame Djibouti boy.

You were the one that was taking the pride that menelik was one of your people and that Ras gobena united Oromos.Well It was Ras gobena that sold your folks to slavery being a servant of Menelik.

Please stop with your crocodile tears.It was Oromos that facilitated the slave trade of their fellow oromos.

Just like West Africans facilitated the slave trade of their fellow West Africans into the Americas.

Angry Ogadeni boy, let me school you as usual on things:

1] Never claimed menelik was one of ours, but said that he depended on oromo warriors for most of his life.
our warriors had his life in their hands on more than one occaision, but let him go, because he wasn't as big an enemy as tewodros.
but i do not expect a simple minded fool like you to comprehend that.

2] oh the same way some of your somali kin teamed up with ras makonnen and his oromo/amara/gurage/etc army to conquer the other clans in the ''ogaden,'' thus soldifying our/their claim to that region? oh ok!

3] gobana did not sell oromos. he did good and bad like anyone else, but i like him for the most part because he united warring oromo clans.
had a somali chief united ogadenis issa and other warring somali clans [if they were warring], you'd be doing the dhaanto dance for him 10000x a day; be honest here. but yes, some oromo chiefs did sell some oromo slaves, but for the most part, it was abyssinian soldiers from menelik's army who captured slaves, from not just among oromos, but gurage girls, and other southerners.

4] once again, yes, in some cases they did, but not entirely. it was a combination of oromo chiefs selling slaves from among enemy/warring clans they fought with, menelik's army, who then sold them to arab and turks who loved light skinned oromo/gurage/southern girls.

[Jimcaale201]

Subxanallah. Dhulmi being described here but I've always wondered maxaa ka khaldan oromoda? gumaysi kaliye bay garanayaan. No one in the region is like this. There must be some socio-historical reasons for why they have suffered this much.

[dalalos101]

Subxanallah. Dhulmi being described here but I've always wondered maxaa ka khaldan oromoda? gumaysi kaliye bay garanayaan. No one in the region is like this. There must be some socio-historical reasons for why they have suffered this much.

it must be cultural difference, slavery is common in their culture, servitude is common, even those who are "free" are serfs on the land they plow. it is a mistake to confuse that with Somali culture, they have more in common with the Amhara and Tigray who have similar culture, the closest similarity they have with Somalis are the Raxaweyn who practice a caste system, and the cadcads/jareers.

[XHKS]

at the conquest of Menelik of ethiopia their was fine line between oromo and somali clans, the diffrence was religion and xeer, either way Menelik enslaved them all pagan, muslim, or what ever, he had a mandate from his european patrons with weapons and statecraft

the tragedy of our region is how we saw eachother as others and made others take advantage of us.

today, weather amhara oromo, gurage tigray, somali, saho, bedja, we understand we are one and the sa,e, for the first time we have come to know eachother and have come to know the other

this tradegy happend to west africans too and southern africans read the story of the zulu king and mandela

the best example of kingship is abroad where ever there is somali their is oromo amhara, tigray because know one knows the difference, i call this the tragedy and hope for our people