Browsing by Author "Ta'a, Tesema (Prof.)"

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    The Activities of Protestant Missionaries in Introducing Modern Education and Health Services in Dambi Dollo Awaraja (Ca 1918-1974)
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-08) Tola, Debela; Ta'a, Tesema (Prof.)
    The study is about the missionaries and the beginning of Modern Education among the Sayyo Oromo who live in Dambi Dollo and its surrounding. The study attempts to document how the Missionaries, especially the Protestant Missionaries came to the area of Sayyo and their methods of expansion as well as how they undertook the conversion activity among the Sayyo Oromo The study also deals with what the traditional religious and ritual ceremollie of the Sayyo people looked like before the introduction of either Christianity or Islam in to the area. Further investigation was also conducted to check how the Ethiopian Orthodox church expanded in the area and how it was welcomed among the Sayyo Drama. Furthermore the study tried to check how the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the first Christian Church, which had penetrated the Sayl'o area and how if responded to the newly arrived Protestan tism as well as the relationsh ip between the Ethiopian Orthodox Christians and the Protestants. In this study special focus is given to the Missionaries modernizing efforts among the Sayyo Oromo. That means how Missionaries started building Schools, Hospitals, Clinics and different Churches. Despite the efforts of the missionaries in expanding modernization among the Sayyo Oromo they had also affected the normal life-style of the people. The research reveals that Christianity arrived among the Sayyo Oromo of Dambi Dollo and it urroundings before a century ago. Protestantism expanded in the area by convincing methods of donation and often by impressive pressures made particularly through attacking the traditional Oromo religion with its rituals. In genera! the contextual background, Political oppression, low economic status, lack of infrastructure, the event of Influenza Epidemic and other world historical events contributed to the people.,·' active conversion to Protestantism The mass conversion of the people resulted in creating new spiritual orientation, which brought about holistic change, including the undermining of indigenous cultural practices.
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    Historical Survey of Socio-Cultural Interaction Among the Peoples of Gidda Woreda, Eastern Wallagga (1936 -2000)
    (Addis Ababa University, 2018-06) Akuma, Seketa; Ta'a, Tesema (Prof.)
    This thesis is a hi t rical survey ofsocio-cultural interactions among the people ' 0 Gidda district from the Italian occupation in 1936 to the period IVhen interactions between indigenous Oromo people and the Amhara reselliers gave ri e to open war in 2000. Gidda district is located in Eastern Wallagga ::.one of Western Ethiopia. nlil the GoBame and Shoans conquered the area in the last quarter of the 191t. centwy, no new order was imposed on the socio-cultural lives of the people except for the emergence of monarchical chiefs whose powers had weakened the gadaa system. Therefore, the people of the district IVho had different clans, 'ub-clans and lineages had lived by practicing their indigenous religion and other socio-cultural practices. Throughout the period under study. three historical developments had been experienced and tram/ormed the socio-cultural interactions of the people. These are the natural socio-cultural interactions among the local people, the impacts of the newly introduced religions and the arrival of reseltlers fro m northern parts of Ethiopia. The legacies and the consequences of conquest accompanied by these three historical developments as well as other changes and continuities brought the socio-cultural t ran~form atio n among the inhabitants of the area. On the side of the ne}vly arrived reselliers, their spontaneous advent and the continual changes in their sentiments increased their interactions with the indigenous people. Consequently, combinations of cooperation and conf lict as well as interactions and isolationism characterized the relationships between the /1Vo groups. AI/o st of the time, intensity of inter-ethnic su.spicion and isolationism exceeds that of the cooperation and consistent peacefit! interactions. This problem emanates from and utmost related to the roles played by the exploitative and suppressive Ethiopian governments. Among the newly introduced religions, Orthodox Christianity and Protestantism brought remarkable socio-cultural tran~fo rmations. As the people adopted and added the ideologies of the new religions to their own, many of them modified their social lives, food and food habits, marriage practices, fimeral system and their allitudes towards different rituals to the extent that the ideologies of the two religions intermingled at least in the heart of the people. As a part of the gadaa .system, the indigenous religion of the people had already been internalized. Therefore, the newly designed administration system and the newly introduced religions faced hardships in snatching the principles of indigenous culture. Therefore, the people retained some aspects of their value system and indigenolls religion.
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    A History of State Farm and Sugar Factory in Fincha'a Valley (1974 - 2012)
    (Addis Ababa University, 2017-09) Tullu, Negassa; Ta'a, Tesema (Prof.)
    My thesis focuses on a history of agriculture in 'i h I 'a III J 974 to 20J 2. Ficha 'a Valley is located in the romia Re i nal tat in J/ rr udul'lI Wollega Zone, Abay Choman Woreda. Fincha 'a, Amarti and Nashe dams were constructed in Horro uduru /IV II a Zan in 19 3, 1987 and 2013 respectively. They generate 225MW hydroel ctric power. The water a lh dams is used for irrigation agriculture in the Fincha 'a Valley. Fincha 'a late Farm wa ' established in 1974 to overcome the shortage of food the country had faced at the time. Plantation of sugar cane was started in 1991. However, the can ·truction of the fac tory wa ' delayed up to 1998/1999 due to the lack of money and change of government that took place in 1991. Its construction was completed and the factory was inaugurated in 1999. All the three developments (the darns, Fincha 'a State Farm and Fincha 'a Sugar Factory) contribute a lot to the economic development and job creation for Ethiopian citizens. Many Ethiopians are employed in the Hydropower plants and the sugar factory. The tate Farm, Hydropower Plants and Fincha'a Sugar Factory became source of government revenue. At the same time the development of the dams and the sugar fa ctory challenged the life of the local people and also caused diverse and far reaching impacts on the local environment. About 44,000 people were evicted from their farm and grazing lands. As a result most oft hem became poor and homeless. Natural vegetations were cleared. Severe land degradation is going on. Wild animals escaped from that area. Totally, both positive and negative effects of these developments are seen in the area. Today Fincha 'a Valley became a home for 60,330 people and also the center of agro industry.