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Historical
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With
the Armies of Menelik II
With the Armies of Menelik II,
by Alexander K. Bulatovitch, published in 1900. This is the most vivid
eyewitness account of the invasion of the south by the Abyssinian army.
Bulatovich's descriptions underline why the events are still remembered
with horror. An English translation of the entire text is available on
this site, along with a translation of Bulatovich's companion text From
Entotto to the River Baro (1897).
Ethiopia:
A New Start?
A PDF of the Minority Rights Group's report Ethiopia: A New Start?
by Kjetil Tronvoll. The report looks at the situation of minority groups
throughout Ethiopia. It was published in 2000 and has been somewhat overtaken
by recent events, but its conclusion - Promises Unfulfilled? -
suggests why Ethiopian politics have become so unsettled. Its final recommendation
is that the 'Ethiopian government should target its education, health
and housing policies to ensure that the basic rights of the most marginalise
and disadvantaged minorities are upheld, especially in the south of the
country ...'
Ethnicity
and Power in Ethiopia
A PDF of the full text of Sarah Vaughan's Ph.D. thesis Ethnicity
and Power in Ethiopia (Edinburgh, 2003).
Vaughan looks at the role of ethnicity in Ethiopian politics and the tensions
between centralising and centrifugal forces in the Ethiopian state. Vaughan's
discussion covers the whole of Ethiopia. Her section beginning with 'Repacking
Pandora's Box' in the Southern Region (pp.249-282) discusses the the role
of 'ethnicity' in the struggle for advantage among peoples of the south.
It's not always a very edifying tale!
Resettlement
and Villagization
Report by Cultural Survival on the resettlement programme of the mid-1980s.
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Environmental
Information
and Discussion
Non-Timber
Forest Products
Website of the Non-Timber Forest Products Research and Development
Project. This group promotes the sustainable management of forest
and land resources in the Sheka, Kefa and Bench-Maji zones in the
SNNPS.
Ethiopian
Bamboo Forests
A PDF of Kassahun Embayes doctoral dissertation Ecological Aspects
and Resource Management of Bamboo Forests in Ethiopia. Embaye's
research was based on the bamboo forests in the Masha region and
this thesis gives a useful introduction to this little-known floral
ecosystem and the potential uses of bamboo in combating deforestation.
No
Tree, No Bee - No Honey, No Money
A PDF of Ingrid Hartmann's paper 'No
Honey, No Bee - No Honey, No Money': The Management of Resources
and Marginalization in Beekeeping Societies of South West Ethiopia,
2004. Ms Hartmann knows the Kefa and Sheka zones well. Her paper
focuses on the interrelationship of traditional beekeeping and the
caste segregation which is traditional in the societies of the region.
Hartmann shows how the social exclusion of the Manjo - the hunter
caste - exacerbates environmental destruction. A fascinating introduction
for those unfamiliar with Ethiopia to this contentious subject.
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A Tree in the Southern Forests
© Graeme
Watson
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The
Tree Against Hunger
The Tree Against Hunger - Enset-Based Agricultural
Systems in Ethiopia. A very comprehensive
site on the biology, cultivation and social effects of the enset plant
in southern Ethiopia. Includes useful photographs of the elaborate procedure
of processing enset material.
Gendered Scripts
& Soil Fertility
Gendered Scripts and Declining Soil Fertility
in Southern Ethiopia. Another very detailed
site of the cultivation of enset - and of the problems that enset-based
agricultural systems are facing.
Ethiopian Tree Fund Foundation
Ethiopian Tree Fund Foundation. An organisation
founded by American-based Ethiopians. Some useful articles on forests
and deforestation.
Conserve Africa
Foundation
The Conserve Africa Foundation - an environmental
NGO that aims to promote and implement sustainable development practices,
policies and strategies in Africa.
Southern
Ethiopian Bulletin Boards
Enset
Enset - A Southern Ethiopian Perspective on Ethiopian
Current Affairs.
And
finally ...
Fret7
Photographer Beatrice Watson's site. Includes more images from southern
Ethiopia.
RISC
RISC - Reading International Solidarity Centre
- always worth a visit!
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