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ajiss-286	Ali, Mohammed Hassen	Shaykh Bakrii Saphalo: An Oromo Muslim Cultural Icon	2014.0	26	.pdf	application/pdf	10755	561	66	Page 93 dents, related a great deal of information about his teacher’s life4; (3) Dima Yonis who, on my behalf, interviewed several former students living in So- malia in 19805; (4) Mohammed Abraham Waday (aka Shantam Subissa), a relative and a student of the shaykh, also supplied valuable information about his teacher’s interest in politics and poetry6; (5) his grandson Mohammed Nur, who lives in Portland, OR, supplied reliable information and some of the shaykh’s poems7; (6) Aliyi Khalifa’s recent work8 on the shaykh’s life and ca- reer, which is based on extensive oral interviews of the latter’s former students; and (7) the collection of Oromo poems published in 1996,9 which includes eight of his poems and earned him the title of “The Father of Revolutionary Oromo Poetry. The dates 1875 and 1887 were turning points Oromo history: 1875 was the first time part of the region’s Oromo fell under Egyptian colonial occupation, and in 1887 all eastern Oromo fell under Menelik’s colonial administration.	cache/ajiss-286.pdf	txt/ajiss-286.txt