http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/1992 2001-01-13T06:35:38Z 2001-01-13T06:35:38Z TȀSFAYȄ, TȀFȀRA http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/16232 2024-11-20T12:39:38Z 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z

A BIOGRAPHY O F ARTIST MȀRITU LȀGȀSSȀ (1948---) TȀSFAYȄ, TȀFȀRA The aim of this study is to reconstruct the biography of Märitu Lägässä, a renowned Ethiopian singer. This research employed a qualitative research methodology in the sense that utilizing both primary and secondary sources to ensure a comprehensive and authentic portrayal. The primary data was basically collected from Amhara Region Colture and Tourism Bureau, South Wollo Zone Culture and Tourism office, Wollo University, and Däsé Zuria Wäräda Culture and Tourism Office.The data also gathered from relevant historical information from secondary materials, especially from books, journal articles, newspapers, and magazines, alongside primary sources to enhance the reliability of the findings. Additionally, information collected from knowledgable informants was sought to further substantiate the research. Each source was meticulously examined and cross-verified to ensure authenticity and reliability. Finally, the data was presented in the form of histirical narrative. In reconstructing Artist Märitu Lägässä's life story, it becomes evident that she produced several albums, each reflecting the diverse surveys of Ethiopian cultural music. Throughout her career, she moved frequently, contributing significantly to the promotion and preservation of Ethiopian culture. Despite her noteworthy contributions, there has been a lack of scholarly research on her life and work. Understanding the development of the Ethiopian music industry, the role of the Wollo Lalibala Kinät Group, and the exploration of Ethiopian traditional music scales is incomplete without a thorough examination of Märitu Lägässä's contributions. This thesis aims to focus her contributions to the music industry in Ethiopia and to ensure that her legacy is passed on to future generations. This thesis seeks to address this gap in the existing literature. Her impactful role in the music industry garnered widespread recognition. The Ethiopian government honored her contributions by awarding her an honorary doctorate from Wollo University, along with various awards and gifts. Public acknowledgment of her achievements was also substantial, with Artist Märitu Lägässä receiving numerous certificates, awards, and donations in recognition of her exceptional contributions. In 1977, Märitu Lägässä joined the Wollo Lalibäla Kinät Group, a pivotal moment in her career. Through her diverse musical works, she captured the attention of the Därg government. Her contributions to Ethiopian culture were significant, as she was not only released numerous music albums and singles but also wore traditional Habäsha attire throughout the year. Märitu Lägässä’s dedication to these cultural expressions played a crucial role in the development and promotion of the Ethiopian music industry.

2024-09-01T00:00:00Z AASHEBER, HUSSEN ARAGAW http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/16231 2024-11-20T12:26:14Z 2024-09-01T00:00:00Z

A HISTORY OF TRADITIONAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION MECHANISMS IN TÄHULÄDÄRE WÄRÄDA (1941-2021) AASHEBER, HUSSEN ARAGAW Tähulädäre Wäräda is one of the twenty-three Wäräda found in South wollo zone under the recent Amhara regional administrative structure. It is one of the largest and prosperous regions, endowed with abundances of natural and man-made resources, which is suitable area for human settlement. An attempt to control such natural resources among different social forces in the Wäräda brought serious turbulence, forced the community to look for a robust mediating body to manage their relation through time. This endless effort resulted in the birth of what we call the traditional conflict resolution system with its institutions, based on the consent of the people to perform a specific function in a given setting and culture. Traditional conflict resolution mechanisms are solving a conflict depending on society’s norms, neighbor relationship or organizational practice .This system has by far emerged as an alternative way of settling enormous disputes in the study area for a long time. Unless conflict is managed properly, it results in political, social and economic destruction of human beings. The cost of conflict depends on the type of conflict resolution system that individuals used to settle their disagreements. The main objective of this study was assessing indigenous conflict resolution mechanisms and practices and their implication for socioeconomic development of the rural people in the study area. Specifically, the study identified the common types and causes of conflict; explored the economic advantage of indigenous conflict resolution system and restoring the social relationship of residents in the study area. It also deals with institutions of traditional conflict resolution, methods of criminal detection. Finally the study identified the challenges that indigenous conflict resolution system facing, dynamics and the weakness that indigenous conflict resolution have. Therefore, the main focus of this paper is to explore a history of traditional conflict resolution mechanisms in Tähulädäre wäräda .The paper discusses the nature of traditional conflict resolution mechanisms and its effort to bring social order in the Wäräda. The researcher consulted available documents found in Dessie museum, in Tähulädäre wäräda information office, police office, culture and tourism office, shaia court and peace and security office of the Wäräda. Moreover, unstructured interview with different elderly informants living in the study area has been conducted to collect a range of information about the trend of practicing traditional conflict resolution. Qualitative research design was preferred to present the data. This research proved the traditional conflict resolution system has developed the capacity of restoring the broken social bond between the offender, the victim and member of their family through conciliation, by erasing disputes culturally accepted traditions of taking revenge to show manhood in the community. These ethical rules and xii customary institutions were primary instruments which would help the community to maintain peace,execute elder-based conflict resolving mechanisms

2024-09-01T00:00:00Z Zeru, Kindachew http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/14019 2022-08-18T13:37:18Z 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A History of Malaria Epidemic In The Former Qolla-Daga Damot Awrajja: Gojjam Zeru, Kindachew Environmental and ecological changes in the course of time have threatening the very survival of the human race on earth. The transformation of the natural world by human action has an effect on both the nature and the people. Such phenomenon has given way to the evolution of modem environmental history in the 201hcentury. Accordingly, this study as part of the environmental hi~tory deals with the malaria epidemics in in the former Qolla-Daga Damot Awrajja. Population movement and ecological changes were the major factors that contributed to the outbreak of recurrent malaria epidemics across many regions in Qolla-Daga Damot Awrajja. Ber-Salaqo, in Jabi-Tahenan Warada, served as the dissemination center of malaria and recurrent malaria epidemic outbreaks. The agricultural productivity of Ber-Salaqo brought both the attention of the government to the agricultural development programs and the nearby woredas people, such as Quarit and Daga-Damot where lands are inconvenient for agricultural practices. Therefore, tremendous ecological changes were brought to Ber-Salaqo and which in tum brought changes in the pattern of malaria transmission in the region. The wide spread of the malaria malaria infection in the Qolla-Daga Damot districts was effected by the returnees with the malaria paRasite to the malaria receptive areas of Quarit and Daga-Damot. Therefore, this thesis analyze the ecological changes, population movement from the daga regions to qolla with in the awraja itself along with the vagaries of weather as the major causes to the spread of malaria transmission and recurrent malaria epidemics m the study area .

2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Tigabu, Tesfanew http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/13736 2022-06-02T11:32:05Z 2014-08-01T00:00:00Z

A History of Semada Warada, South Gondar Zone, (1941 -1991) Tigabu, Tesfanew This thesis seeks to reconstruct the aspects of the political, social, and economic history of Semada warada of the South Gondar Administrative Zone. It is mainly based on a critical analysis of archival sources and oral information gathered from the field. The thesis focuses on the district's history in the period between 1941 and 1991. The thesis then looks at the post­ liberation (1941) administrative reorganization of administration and its characteristic in the district. Systems of land tenure and taxation as well as tribute collection on the district are the other themes examined in the imperial period. Jn addition, trade and its role as source of income and impact on the processes of urbanization in the district are discussed. The attempted resistance against the military junta in the district and the process by which the government imposed its rule was another important issue discussed in the thesis. The Darg subJequently introduced several socio-economic and political reforms and programs. The thesis looks at the nature of those reforms, how far they succeeded and brought tangible results in the district. The thesis also discusses and analyzes the civil war between the government and EPRDF forces in the years between 1989 and early 1991 as well as its impacts on the inhabitants of the district. As a historical research, this paper is based on a systematic selection, collection, and analysis of archival documents, manuscripts, and secondary sources of both published and unpublished.

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