What is the Gadaa System?

                                  The Gadaa System

1.1) What is the Gateway System?

According to oral history, the Gada system existed even before the 10th century, but as people continued to move away from each other, they began to live independently without the Gada system. People who refused to be ruled by the Gada System in 1385 -1 For 72 years, people lived without Gada, but living without law and order made people’s lives more unstable, dangerous, and chaotic.

There was a distinct rise in crime, instability, and violence in the daily lives of the Oromo people. People were crying for peace, security, leadership, law, and order. This situation has forced community members to reconsider that the Gadaa System is the only way out of this situation. Later Year 72, a few men in the community among them Gadayoo Galgalo, Ali Gurracha, Yaayyaa Muunyoo, Raaba Yaayyaa Fullalle, and Gadammojjii Oole Bonayyaa started to renew the Gadaa system.

These reforms were crucial because lapses in rules, order, and norms in Gada were already there. Ali Gurraacha and Yaayya Munyo were the main players in the Gada

process of reform of the regime and helped to convince the people to accept the regime without any response or is a resistance. Gadayoo Galgaloo presented the reformed system as the newly established Gadaa system. The well-established Gadaa system we have in southern Oromia has been reformed and those central personal images. The first Abba Gada was Gadayyoo Galgaloo. Hi from the Dambitu Tribe and the Warra-Gugsa sub-tribe. His Gada name was Fullaasa. His Gada office was 1475-1465 (8 years). 

According to legend and mythological description, the Gada is out of the Oromo cultural and religious system, more precisely out of the Qaalluu institution to avoid internal conflict and chaos. The Qallu organization has played a major role in producing a sense of Oromummaa. The Gada system has been described in many ways; however, this paper presents the following generic definition of the Gadaa system. The Gadaa system is a politically participatory Oromo cultural institution based on process, economic, cultural, ritual, spiritual, social, and administrative systems with the overarching concept of participatory and representative democracy, principles of power within both

permanently and fairly distributed, balanced, checked, controlled and limited between it are the pillars of three institutions known as the Three Gada Assemblies (the Gada of Arbora, Medhichaa and Garbaa institutions). . . . . Preventing or preventing such patterns of distribution and limitation of power is crucial for resolving conflicts, maintaining political, economic, cultural, social and institutional stability. According to Legesse (2000), Gada is certainly not a single-issue institution.

For example, the Gateway

in the Borana-Oromo system, there are three different pillars of institutions (one higher and two smaller institutions) known as the Arbora, Medhicha and Garba institutions.