College Life and Political Involvement

The chapter explains Baro Tumsa’s political activities at the Addis Ababa College and later at the Haile Selassie I University and, at the same time, his involvement in the Macha-Tulama Self-Help Association (MTA) and how these experiences helped him in forming the Oromo Liberation Front in the 1970s after the MTA was brutally suppressed in 1967.