Aadaan Ormaa Aadaa tee hin taatu...Abbaa Gadaa Oromoo Arsii...Dubbii Qora Lallaba guyyaa har'aa Gaggeeffame keessaa....Kutaa 2ffaa dha dhiyaadhaa. | Oromia Culture and Tourism Bureau

⸻ Gadaa and Safuu: A Moral Antithesis to the Mask of Hypocrisy The passage by Be’alu Girma is a powerful diagnosis of a society living behind masks—where public virtue is performed, private vice is practiced, and hypocrisy becomes a defining trait. Yet this condition stands in direct contradiction to the indigenous Oromo systems of Gadaa and Safuu, which rest on moral transparency, communal accountability, and ethical coherence between speech and action. 1. Intrigue vs. Moral Accountability Be’a