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Translocations of Affirmation

Mediascapes and Cultural Flows among the Stateless Oromo

University of Western Sydney, Australiag.gow{at}uws.edu.au

This article concerns the media cultures of anticolonial stateless groups. The discussion is based upon the case of the Oromo, an ethno-national group within Ethiopia. The translocal dimensions of media and cultural flows among the Oromo are investigated, with a focus upon the important interlocutory roles of artists, media and cultural workers in diaspora contexts. The article indicates how Oromo people performatively conjoin with and chaotically produce their own mediascapes – at the various sites called the loci of affirmation – in the process of imagining themselves to be members of a global diaspora. An important theme is efforts by consecutive Ethiopian regimes to curb the influence of diaspora mediascapes within their borders.

Key Words: artists • diaspora • Ethiopia • imagination • media • nationalism • Oromo • refugees • translocal

International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, 301-319 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/1367877904046304


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