id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
ahmr-859	Girma, Hewan	Children of Hope: The Odyssey of the Oromo Slaves from Ethiopia to South Africa, by Sandra Rowoldt Shell. Ohio University Press, 2018, 352 pages. ISBN: 978-0-8214-2318-9. Hardcover price: $49.95.	2021	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1645	68	50	Bartering children for food became a means of survival, and Shell aptly notes that “enslavement was an individuated, not a collective process” (p. 191). For instance, while Shell mentions the system of guddifachaa, whereby individual children are adopted into a new family, she neglects to address the system of mass assimilation campaigns knows as mogassa, where entire communities are voluntarily or forcibly integrated into the Oromo group, thus gradually increasing the size of the Oromo population.	cache/ahmr-859.pdf	txt/ahmr-859.txt