Melbourne woman Toltu Tufa launches publishing company to print teaching resources for Oromo,a language forbidden under Haile SelassieToltu Tufa grew up in Australia, so she couldn’t understand why her father insisted on teaching her Oromo, and a macrolanguage spoken in parts of Ethiopia,Kenya, Somalia and Egypt.
But what she went on to discover about the language prompted her to launch the first publishing company to print children’s books entirely in Oromo, and which she exports from her domestic in Footscray,5km west of Melbourne, to schools and families throughout the world.
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Source: theguardian.com