By Asnake Erko 1 , Genet Lemessa 2 , Hinsene Mekuria 3 , Tullu Liban 4 , Dhiba Guyo 5 , Kediro Elemo 6 , Girma Tadesse 7 , Nega Wedajo 8 , Mohammed Mane 9 , Girma Gutema 10 Background As part of our move to honor the great celebrations of this upcoming season of Irreecha in Oromia, Ethiopia, this article takes on what Irreecha is and isn’t for those who proudly celebrate it. It would be prudent to inform readers from the very outset here, that the article is a highly condensed and concise compilation of contributions by all the authors, whose distribution from diaspora and back home is almost even. Moreover, we termed the concept of Qeerroo Generenation in the contemporary Oromoo society as “GenerationZ” in this article, as part of our attempt to sync it with the internationally recognized concept that defines those youth groups as the ones who were born by the end of the last millennium —specifically after the year 1997.
Irreecha: An African Saturnalia What was historically known as Winter Solstice in the northern hemisphere of planet earth in today’s Europe and much of North American continents is a specific date in a year when the shortest day and the longest night happens. This falls on either December 21 or 22 of every year. Ancient Romans called the day Saturnalia and celebrated it with great festivity in honor of Saturn, which they believed was the god of plant fertility and hence the ensuing agricultural abundance.
They celebrated Solstice for farms would tu.
