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Prominent Kenyan Oromo Scholar Professor Abdullahi Shongolo Passes Away at 68
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Prominent history and anthropology scholar Professor Abdullahi Shongolo, known for his extensive research on Borana Oromo culture and customary law, has passed away in Kenya at the age of 68.
- Professor Abdullahi Shongolo passed away on 20 October at the age of 68 at Nanyuki Hospital in Kenya following an illness.
- He was born in Moyale, Kenya, in 1958 and served in Kenya's Ministry of Education, rising to Assistant Director of Education.
- He served as a senior researcher at Germany's Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology from 1999 to 2019.
- He worked as an Associate Research Fellow in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden during the 2000s.
- He co-authored books with Professor Günther Schlee, including Pastoralism and Politics in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia and Islam and Ethnicity in Northern Kenya and Southern Ethiopia.
- He documented traditional Borana oral literature and proverbs in Boran Proverbs in Their Cultural Context.
- His research brought international attention to Oromo history, pastoral life, religious traditions, and the Gumii Gaayo Assembly.
- His funeral was held on 21 October in Nanyuki, Kenya.
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