Gemetchu Megerssa obtained his Ph.D. from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (England), in 1993. His doctoral thesis was on the knowledge system and national identity of the Oromo, and on how their traditional knowledge traditions were progressively overlaid by the Abyssinian colonizing structures. After completing his doctoral studies, he lectured in anthropology at the University of Addis Ababa (Ethiopia) for over a decade and a half from 1996. He is currently the director of the Oromo Studies Centre, Rift Valley University, Oromia (Ethiopia).
