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Gufte — Oromo Cultural Soundscape from the Plateau July 26, 2026

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Gufte — Oromo Cultural Soundscape from the Plateau

TC Press, London — Cultural Atlas Series

Ecology Lyrics Series — Oromo Cultural Soundscapes

A multi‑song lyrical universe rooted in land, rivers, wildlife, and planetary interconnectedness.

Gufte, a plateau northwest of Hacaacii, is one of the most distinctive highland formations in the Waamaa Dhidhessaa watershed. Its cliffs, rivers, trees, wildlife, and ancestral routes form a complete ecological and cultural system — a living map carried across generations.

This soundscape is part of the emerging Ecology Lyrics Series — Oromo Cultural Soundscapes, which includes earlier works such as:

These works originate from places that appear small and invisible to the world, yet they contain deep ecological wisdom. They show how humans survive in micro‑environments, how they interact with land, how they protect it, and how they maintain balance with wildlife and seasons. This is microeconomics from daily life, expressed through sound.

Gufte continues this lineage.

The video blends the sunset light of the plateau with the twin rivers Qarsaa and Killoo, flowing parallel before joining each other to join Kombolcha. In the foreground stand the small and elder Hoomii trees, guardians of honey culture, where bees nest in ancient trunks and people harvest honey from tree holes and traditional combs. Above them rises Odaa Guftee, the wide‑canopied tree that has long served as a symbol of assembly, wisdom, and continuity for the people of Gufte.

The music is built from lived geography: the descent from the plateau, the grazing fields of Dachaa Burqituu, the spring Burqitu, the river junctions, the honey‑badger Hamaa known for its fearless gentleness, and the tiger Qeerransa that roams the Hacaacii forest. Every element in the soundscape corresponds to a real landmark, a real memory, a real ecological relationship.

This is not fiction. It is Oromo homeland rendered as sound — a micro‑ecology that mirrors planetary interconnectedness.

Watch the cultural soundscape: https://youtube.com/shorts/-5CkCX-cjEc?is=YGTc-Fgi-ufTyQk0

Credits Lyrics: Temesgen Muleta‑Erena; Melody: Gemini; Visual Composition: TC Press; Location: Gufte Plateau, Oromia; Series: Experimental Microeconomics from Daily Life; Umbrella Theme: Ecology Lyrics Series — Oromo Cultural Soundscapes

Cooling Without Penalty: Aerosol Decline, Heatwave Dynamics, and the Transition to Autonomous Civilisation July 25, 2026

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Cooling Without Penalty: Aerosol Decline, Heatwave Dynamics, and the Transition to Autonomous Civilisation

Abstract

The global decline in aerosol pollution has produced a counterintuitive climatic effect: stronger heatwaves. While cleaner air improves public health, the reduction of reflective aerosols removes a temporary cooling shield, revealing the full warming force of greenhouse gases. This essay integrates climate physics, entropy‑based development theory, entropic growth and development paradigm, and experimental microeconomics to analyse how autonomous civilisation emerges within legacy infrastructures. A game‑theoretic model illustrates strategic interactions between states, industries, and planetary systems. The essay concludes that societies can achieve both clean air and reduced heatwaves by reducing greenhouse gases while maintaining low aerosol levels.

 Keywords: aerosols; heatwaves; EGDP; entropy; experimental microeconomics; autonomous civilisation; climate policy; development economics; systemic wellbeing; sustainability.

JEL Codes: Q54; Q56; O13; O44; C72; D02; D90; H41.

Read the full text at OSF | Cooling Without Penalty: Aerosol Decline, Heatwave Dynamics, and the Transition to Autonomous Civilisation 

Hacaacii — New Oromo Modern Melody Released July 22, 2026

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🎵 Hacaacii — New Oromo Modern Melody Released

TC Press announces the release of a new Oromo modern‑melody track titled Hacaacii, now available on YouTube.  

This song blends indigenous lyrical tradition with contemporary autonomous‑age sound design, making visible the quiet, invisible beauty of rural Oromo landscapes and cultural memory.

YouTube link: https://youtube.com/shorts/dX_0cDyJbyM?si=TXiU9X1rFiYv7US9

About the Song

Hacaacii is inspired by a real place where the small river Doganoo flows toward Dhidheesa, surrounded by flat grazing lands, forest edges, wildlife, and the sacred Odaa tree on the hilltop.

The song reflects the emotional pull of returning to a landscape where land, animals, people, and memory are inseparable.

The lyrics express longing, reflection, and the resonance of nature:

Hacaacii keessa nannayyee

Maaf garaan na nanayee

Yoo qalbiin keessa demanii

Bobbasa bushayee kenyaa

Lafaa dheeda lowwannii

Ya qeerransa laga dooganoo

Egaa sif gamte yoonawoo

These lines form a poetic map of Hacaacii — a place where river, hill, forest, and community meet.

Cultural Significance

The song brings forward the invisible indigenous beauty of places like Hacaacii, where:

  • villagers gather under the Odaa tree
  • animals and people share the river
  • forests provide daily resources
  • wildlife moves freely
  • memory and land remain intertwined

By combining modern melody with traditional imagery, Hacaacii becomes a sonic preservation of Oromo heritage in the autonomous age.

Oromian Economist 2011-2026  Oromia Quarterly  1997-2026

Systemic Wellbeing and the Multi-node Stability Function: A Development Economics Model for Social, Ecological, and Institutional Stability July 21, 2026

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Systemic Wellbeing and the Multi-node Stability Function:

A Development Economics Model for Social, Ecological, and Institutional Stability

📘 New SSRN Release: Systemic Wellbeing and the Multi‑Node Stability Function

TC Press is pleased to announce the SSRN distribution of Temesgen Muleta‑Erena’s seventh research essay, Systemic Wellbeing and the Multi‑Node Stability Function: A Development Economics Model for Social, Ecological, and Institutional Stability.

This work is now publicly available through SSRN’s global research network:

SSRN link:  

https://ssrn.com/abstract=6981518

OSF link:  

Oromian Economist  link:  

TC Press  link:  

https://sites.google.com/view/the-codex-press/systemic-wellbeing-and-the-multi-node-stability-function

Overview

Systemic Wellbeing introduces a unified development‑economics framework built on the Multi‑Node Stability Function (MNSF)—a mathematical model that treats social, ecological, and institutional wellbeing as interdependent components of a single systemic health condition. The paper challenges GDP‑centric and individual‑centric paradigms by demonstrating that development outcomes depend on the minimum stability across critical nodes, not the average performance of isolated sectors.

Drawing on the Oromo concept of nagaa—an indigenous systems‑health logic in which personal wellbeing is inseparable from the wellbeing of family, community, animals, land, and environment—the paper shows how pre‑scientific societies encoded interdependence as daily governance. The MNSF formalises this logic using weakest‑link dynamics, entropy minimisation, and threshold‑based stability conditions.

Divergence from systemic wellbeing is shown to generate:

  • social inequality
  • ecological degradation
  • institutional entropy

The paper extends the model to the context of autonomous civilisation, arguing that modern intelligence systems enable humanity to operationalise interdependence at planetary scale. Integrating indigenous systems logic with complexity science provides a viable foundation for sustainable development in the twenty‑first century and beyond.

Citation

Muleta‑Erena, Temesgen. Systemic Wellbeing and the Multi‑Node Stability Function: A Development Economics Model for Social, Ecological, and Institutional Stability. TC Press/The Codex Press, June 23, 2026. SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=6981518.

Keywords

Institutional Entropy; Systemic Wellbeing; Thermodynamics of Governance; Complex Systems; Resilience Theory; Weakest‑link Models; Institutional Design; Stability Thresholds; Interdependence; Governance Systems; Collective Action.

Beyond the Sun: Humanity’s Thermodynamic Republic in the Billion-Year Front July 12, 2026

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Beyond the Sun: Humanity’s Thermodynamic Republic in the Billion-Year Frontier

Modelling Scarcity and Abundance through the Co-Application of Economics and Physics 

A new radiant artifact has entered the world’s knowledge systems.

Beyond the Sun is now live on ProQuest, joining the institutional constellation that includes Berkeley, Oxford, Cambridge, and the national libraries of Scotland and Wales.

This book expands the horizon of human understanding:

  • Thermodynamic agents — citizens as radiant systems
  • Engineered abundance — knowledge as generative force
  • Cosmic ethics — moral clarity for the billion‑year frontier
  • Interstellar logistics — the movement of civilizations across space
  • Long‑horizon stewardship — behaviour across deep time
  • Sovereign modelling — the TC Press ceremonial method

This is not entertainment.

It is a long‑horizon diagnostic for civilization.

Global Distribution  

Available worldwide in ebook, paperback, and hardcover, through Ingram’s global infrastructure, D2D, Apple books, Hoopla, Kobo, Amazon  and all major retailers.

Institutional Presence  

Now discoverable through:

  • Berkeley
  • Oxford
  • Cambridge
  • Scottish National Library
  • Welsh National Library

With ProQuest indexing, Beyond the Sun becomes part of humanity’s archival memory.

ProQuest Access:  

https://www.proquest.com/docview/3362486311/157D5BD6192E48A3PQ/4?sourcetype=Books

TC Press, London — publishing for the long horizon.

See also Beyond the Sun at https://amzn.eu/d/0dbyf26x

Beyond the Sun: Humanity’s Thermodynamic Republic in the Billion-Year Frontier eBook by Temesgen Muleta-Erena – EPUB | Rakuten Kobo United Kingdom