Abdullahi Yousuf

Abdullahi Yousuf (died 1977) was an Oromo politician, a member of the All-Ethiopian Socialist Movement (Meison).[1][2]

Abdullahi Yousuf was active in the leftist Union of Ethiopian Students in Europe, along with Haile Fida. During their student years Haile Fida and Abdullahi Yousuf made significant contributions to the development of Afaan Oromoo as a written language.[2] During the early years of the Ethiopian Revolution, he was appointed head of the Provisional Office for Mass Organizational Affairs in Hararghe. As a POMOA leader, he disarmed Shoan Christian settlers and implemented land reform in Hararghe.[1]

Abdullahi Yousuf was killed in August 1977 during a visit to Addis Ababa. The murder occurred in the midst of the break between Meison and the Derg.[1]

References
  1. Bulcha, Mekuria (1988). Flight and Integration: Causes of Mass Exodus from Ethiopia and Problems of Integration in the Sudan (PDF). Uppsala: Scandinavian Institute of African Studies [Nordiska Afrikainstitutet]. p. 66. ISBN 9171062793. Retrieved 19 November 2022.
    - Clapham, Christopher (1988). Transformation and Continuity in Revolutionary Ethiopia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 203, 216. ISBN 0521396506. Retrieved 19 November 2022 – via Google Books.
  2. Mohammed, Abdulsemed (29 July 2013). "HISTORY OF OROMO WRITING and the Contribution of Dr. Mohammed Reshad". The Gulèlè Post. Archived from the original on 1 August 2013. Retrieved 19 November 2022.


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