Revitalizing Afaan Oromo, a forbidden language - Toltu Tufa

Toltu Tufa is an award winning educator, publisher and psychologist. Having learnt Afaan Oromo from her father, Toltu founded Afaan Publications an initiative to help share stories and create learning resources in her father's language. From being outlawed by the Ethiopian government for 100 years to rallying a global movement to revitalize and create a language revolution, Toltu Tufa has helped to share the history and heritage of her people with the world.

A huge thanks to Toltu Tufa for such an amazing discussion. Don’t forget to check out https://www.toltu.com/
as well as her podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ch/podcast...
Afaan Publications: https://www.afaan.com.au/
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00:00:00 - Intro
00:01:20 - Sexual education among Muslims
00:08:17 - Work-life separation as a Psychologist
00:11:19 - Islamic Psychology
00:12:33 - Growing up with Turkish grandparents
00:19:32 - The benefits of being multilingual
00:22:44 - The history of Oromo
00:24:51 - Learning Oromo & writing children's content
00:31:24 - Biggest roadblocks
00:36:34 - Why Psychology?
00:39:58 - Proudest Moment
00:42:54 - A five minute clip
00:46:09 - Discussing divorce in Islam
00:51:18 - Advice on a healthy marriage
00:55:10 - Toltu's "I Am _____" statement