In the late 1960s, the broadcast of the Afaan Oromoo program commenced from Radio Mogadishu, an outlet operated under the auspices of the Federal Government of Somalia. This occurred during a period when the transmission of Afaan Oromoo music and cultural programming was systematically suppressed within Ethiopia. As a result of this cultural repression, several prominent Oromo artists, journalists, and intellectual figures sought refuge in Somalia, where they initiated the first formal Afaan Oro