Is the Gadaa System an Age-Level (Cycle) System?

 Is the Gadaa System an Age-Level (Cycle) System?

Differences between Age-grading and the Borana Gadaa System In many Oromo studies, the Gadaa system was sometimes simply described as 'age-grading' system' sometimes as 'age group', sometimes as 'priest' (member of the dryer), sometimes as age- cycle' and sometimes as 'generation set.'

However, such definitions clearly understand the difference between age/group/class and the Gada system, and are not properly analyzed, as used in the Gada institution do not think speculate how or why it arose: we just cannot know”.

To begin with, there are no laws and regulations within the Gada system that formally (verbally) state that only a certain age group (40-48 years) can be eligible to enter the Gada assembly or Gada office. The Gada is the social, political, and power course of administrative course through which only men enter power and retirement, which is the Gada defined and controlled by the assembly.

Whereas, the age scale system is an individual lifetime table of time or age through which man and woman pass through different stages, rights, and obligations from birth to death. It is a social and biological timetable of the life course from birth to marriage, political retirement to old age (very old). The misinterpretation of the Gadaa System, by some outsiders and those who do not like Oromo culture, simply as a pure “age-grading” or “age cycle system” has created confusion among students of Oromo culture and the history of the Gadaa system is. From an emic perspective, I would argue that the Gadian system is not an aging system, but a political system.

early age group, in the Gada System, in the Gada system power relations have neither power nor defensive functions rotate and men often fight with each other regardless of their community members

age.

Second, Gada law respects the political right of an individual to resign from his political party and joins another political line. This word is known as guula. A guula is a person who changed his membership or political line by his own decision without any external force.