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List Of Oromo Subgroups And Clans
The Oromo people of East Africa are divided into two major branches: the Borana Oromo and Barento Oromo. These two major groups are in turn subdivided into an assortment of clan families. From West to East and North to South, these subgroups are listed in the sections below. Borana Oromo subgroups The Borana include: *Borana **Walaabu *** Karrayyuu **** Macca Oromo, living between Didessa River and the Omo River, and south into the Gibe region *****Gaaroo *****Sirba *****Libaan *****Jaawwii *****Daal'ee **** Tulama Oromo, who live in the Oromia Region around Addis Ababa *****Ada'a ****** Handha ****** Illuu ****** Dhakku *****Daaccii ******Oboo *******Diigaluu *******Eekka *******Guulaalee *******Gumbichuu *******Konnoo *******Yaayee ******Galaan *******Aabuu *******Adaa *******Gaduulaa *******Jiddaa *******Libaan ******Soddo *******Libaan *******Odituu *******Tummee *****Bachoo ******Garasuu ******Illu ******Keekuu ******Uruu ******Waajituu ******Meta *****Jiillee * Orma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oromo People
The Oromo people (, pron. ) are a Cushitic peoples, Cushitic ethnic group native to the Oromia region of Ethiopia and parts of Northern Kenya. They speak the Oromo language (also called ''Afaan Oromoo''), which is part of the Cushitic languages, Cushitic branch of the Afroasiatic language family. They are one of the largest List of ethnic groups in Ethiopia, ethnic groups in Ethiopia. According to the last Ethiopian census of 2007, the Oromo numbered 25,488,344 people or 34.5% of the Ethiopian population. Recent estimates have the Oromo comprising 45,000,000 people, or 35.8% of the total Ethiopian population estimated at 116,000,000. The Oromo were originally Nomadic pastoralism, nomadic, semi-pastoralist people who later would Oromo expansion, conquer large swaths of land during their expansions. After the settlement, they would establish kingdoms in the Gibe regionsPaul Trevor William Baxter, Jan Hultin, Alessandro Triulzi"Being and Becoming Oromo: Historical and Anthropologi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Borena Zone
Borena ( Oromo: ''Boorana'') is a zone in Oromia Region of Ethiopia. Borena is named after one of the two major subgroups of the Oromo people. Borena is bordered on the south by Kenya, on the west by the Southern Nations, Nationalities, and Peoples Region, on the north by West Guji and Guji, and on the east by Dawa Zone Somali Region. The highest point in this zone is Mount Dara Tiniro. Cities and major towns in this Zone include Negele Borana, Moyale, Yabelo, Dubuluk, Mega, Millami, Surupa and Bakke. History The Borena Zone was created shortly after the adoption of the 1995 Constitution of Ethiopia and the creation of the Oromia Region. In September 2003, the upland woredas were separated from Borena to create the Guji Zone. Since then many of the remaining woredas have been reorganized to create new ones. This Zone was selected by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development in 2004 as one of several areas for voluntary resettlement for farmers from overpopu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deder
Dader (Amharic: ደደር) is a town located in the East Hararghe Zone of the Oromia, Ethiopia with an altitude of above sea level. It is the administrative center of the Dader District. Between 1954 and 1967, Deder received telephone service. Records at the Nordic Africa Institute website provide details of several schools in the town during the year 1968. By 1957, a Mennonite mission had been established in the town, which included a school and a hospital."Local History in Ethiopia" The Nordic Africa Institute website (accessed 3 May 2011) In the 1930s, Deder was a center of coffee production, having a coffee market on the saddle between the Mounts Oubi and Miinya. The town was occupied by the Italians 21 July 1936. Demographics Based on ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Hararghe Zone
East Hararghe () is a Zones of Ethiopia, zone in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. East Hararghe Zone is bordered on the southwest by Bale Zone, Bale, on the west by West Hararghe Zone, on the north by Dire Dawa and on the north and east by the Somali Region. The Harari Region is an enclave inside this zone Towns and cities in East Harerge include Deder, Haramaya, Aweday, Babille, Ethiopia, Babille, Chinaksen and Funyan Bira. Its highest point is Mount Gara Muleta, Gara Muleta. Local landmarks include the Babille Elephant Sanctuary and Haramaya University. The Central Statistical Agency (Ethiopia), Central Statistical Agency (CSA) reported that 3,654.00 tons of coffee were produced in East Hararge in the year ending in 2005, based on inspection records from the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea authority. This represents 3.17% of the Region's output and 1.6% of Ethiopia's total output. Demographics Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the Central Statistical Agency (Ethiopia), Central ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gelemso
Galamso (also spelled Gelemso, and in Oromo Galamsoo), is a town in West Haraghe of Oromia Region, Ethiopia, Gelemso is located in eastern Ethiopian and is far from country capital by 301 km and second way 413 km in the western periphery of the highly networked mountain chain referred to by the natives as Fugug and by geographers as the Ahmar Mountains. Most people say that it is the city of love locally iyyaa Jaalalaአዲስ አድማስ ጋዜጣ፣ ሰኔ 20፣ 2001፣ ‹‹ፉጉግና የሐረርጌ ኦሮሞ›› The marvelous networking of the ''Fugug Mountains'' and the ethnography of the indigenous ''Oromo of Harerghe'' were extensively described in this June 27/ 2009 (ሰኔ 20/2001 in Gee'z calendar) editio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Hararghe Zone
West Hararge () is a zone in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia. West Hararghe takes its name from the former province of Hararghe. West Harerge is bordered on the south by the Shebelle River which separates it from Bale, on the southwest by Arsi, on the northwest by the Afar Region, on the north by the Somali Region and on the east by East Hararghe. Towns in West Hararghe include Chiro, Badessa, Gelemso, and Mieso, Asebot. The highest point in this Zone is Mount Arba Gugu (3574 meters). The Central Statistical Agency (CSA) reported that 8,364.00 tons of coffee were produced in West Hararghe in the year ending in 2005, based on inspection records from the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea authority. This represents 7.27% of the Region's output and 3.7% of Ethiopia's total output. Demographics Based on the 2007 Census conducted by the CSA, this Zone has a total population of 1,871,895, an increase of 47.16% over the 1994 census, of whom 958,861 are men and 912,845 women; with an area o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherifa
Sherif, also spelled Sharif (and, in countries where Francophone Romanization is the norm, Cherif or Charif), is a proper name derived from the Arabic word (, 'noble', 'highborn', 'honorable'), originally a title designating a person descended from the family of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. More broadly, the title was historically applied to anyone of noble ancestry or political preeminence in Islamic countries. The name has no etymological connection with the English term ''sheriff'', which comes from the Old English word ''scīrgerefa'', meaning "shire-reeve", the local reeve (enforcement agent) of the king in the shire (county). Given name * Sherif Abdel-Fadil (born 1983), Egyptian footballer * Sherif Ahmeti (1920–1998), commentator and translator of the Quran into Albanian * Sherif Alaa (born 1992), Egyptian footballer * Sherif Arafa (born 1960), Egyptian director, writer and producer * Sherif Ashraf (born 1987), Egyptian footballer * Sherif Boubaghla (1820–1854), Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabra People
The Gabra () are related to the wider Oromo people in the Horn of Africa, They mainly inhabit the Moyale and Marsabit regions of northern Kenya and the highlands of southern Ethiopia. They mostly practice Islam and Christianity as religion, but maintain mandatory cultural practices.. Genetics According to Y-DNA analysis by Hirbo in 2011, around 82.6% of Gabra in Kenya carry the paternal E1b1b haplogroup, with most belonging to the V12 or E3b1a subclade (58.6%). This lineage is most common among local Afroasiatic-speaking populations. The remaining Gabra individuals bear the T/K2 (3.4%) and J haplogroups (3.4%), which are both also associated with Afroasiatic speakers, as well as the E3*/E-P2 clade (3.4%) and E2a lineage (3.4%). Maternally, Hirbo observed that approximately 58% of the Gabra samples carried derivatives of the Eurasian macrohaplogroups M and N. Of these mtDNA lineages, the M1 subclade was most common, with around 22.58% of the Gabra individuals belonging to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dire Dawa
Dire Dawa (; , meaning"where the Dir (clan), Dir hit his spear into the ground" or "The true Dir", , Harari language, Harari: ድሬዳዋ, lit. "Plain of Medicine"; ) is a city in eastern Ethiopia near the Somali Region and Oromia, Oromo border and one of two Administrative divisions of Ethiopia, chartered cities in Ethiopia (the other being Addis Ababa, the capital). Dire Dawa alongside present-day Sitti Zone were a part of the Dire Dawa autonomous region of the Somali Region stipulated in the 1987 Constitution of Ethiopia, 1987 Ethiopian Constitution until 1993 when it was split by the Government of Ethiopia, federal government into a separately administered chartered city. It is divided administratively into two woredas, the city proper and the non-urban woredas of Gurgura. Dire Dawa lies in the eastern part of the nation, on the Dechatu River, at the foot of a ring of cliffs. The western outskirts of the city lie on the Gorro River, a tributary of the Dechatu River. It is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awash River
} The Awash River (sometimes spelled Awaash; Oromo language, Oromo: ''Awaash OR Hawaas'', Amharic: ዐዋሽ, Afar language, Afar: ''Hawaash We'ayot'', Somali language, Somali: ''Webiga Dir'', Italian language, Italian: ''Auasc'') is a major river of Ethiopia. Its course is entirely contained within the boundaries of Ethiopia and empties into a chain of interconnected lakes that begin with Lake Gargori and end with Lake Abbe (or Abhe Bad) on the border with Djibouti, about from the head of the Gulf of Tadjoura. The Awash River is the principal stream of an endorheic drainage basin covering parts of the Amhara Region, Amhara, Oromia and Somali Regions, as well as the southern half of the Afar Region. The Awash River basin, spanning 23 administrative zones, covers 10% of Ethiopia's area. The basin usually has two rainy seasons, a shorter one around March (''Belg''), and a longer one between June and September (''Kiremt''), which partly fall into one longer rainy season. Climate chan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qallu
Qallo is one of the thirteen sub-clans of the Somali Sheikhal clan. by Richard Burton Etymology Qallu is a common name known in Oromo and Somali traditions because there is a clan called “Qallu’’ within each of these ethnic groups. However, it is the Somalis who enthusiastically refer to the name.Ulrich Braukämper: ''Islamic History and Culture in Southern Ethiopia. Collected Essays'', Göttinger Studien zur Ethnologie 9, 2003, , pp.112-129, 117 It is said that “Qallu” is referring to "people of the religion" and it describes the Qallu’s main occupation in their societies. That means in the past, most of the persons who belong to Qallu clan were dominantly the teachers of Islam in the ar ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arsi Oromo
Arsi Oromo is an ethnic Oromo branch, inhabiting the Arsi, West Arsi and Bale Zones of the Oromia Region of Ethiopia, as well as in the Adami Tullu and Jido Kombolcha woreda of East Shewa Zone.The Arsi are made up of the Sikkoo-Mandoo branch of Barento Oromo. The Arsi in all zones speaks Oromo share the same culture, traditions and identity with other subgroup Oromo. Culture The Arsi have developed a concept of ''Arsooma'' which roughly translates to Arsihood. This has provided Arsi with an identity that has been passing to clans and other groupings for a long period of time. The Arsi have a complex concept of clan division. The two main branches are Mandoo and Sikko. Mandoo refers to the Arsis in the Arsi and northern Bale Zones, while Sikko refers to those mainly in the Bale Zone. History Arsi Oromo state an intermarriage took place between their ancestors and previous inhabitants of the Arsi Province, Adere ( Harari) whom they call the Hadiya. Hadiya clans claim their ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
