The Pre-Galla “Southern Logic” & Ecological Foundations

TL;DR:

The 16th-century Galla (Oromo) expansion is characterized not as the birth of a new socio-political order, but as the systemic “Ashramization” of an ancient, sedentary “Southern Logic.” This logic—anchored in the Luwa of the Sidama, the Baalle of the Gedeo, and the Xelta of the Konso—provided the original procedural machinery for meritocratic scal…