A History of Infrastructural Developments in Dӓbrӓ Tabor Awrajja: 1941-1991

Ashagrie, Saba

dc.contributor.author	Ashagrie, Saba
dc.date.accessioned	2023-07-11T13:08:46Z
dc.date.available	2023-07-11T13:08:46Z
dc.date.issued	2023-06
dc.identifier.uri	http://ir.bdu.edu.et/handle/123456789/15490
dc.description.abstract	The purpose of this study is to reconstruct a history of infrastructural developments in Däbrä Tabor Awrajja from 1941 to 1991. The principal method that the researcher employed is the qualitative method in the sense that primary and secondary data was collected from libraries, archival centers, field observations, and key informant interviews. To this end, the researcher collected pertinent secondary information mainly from the libraries of Bahir Dar University and from Addis Ababa university. Attempts were also made to collect relevant primary archival information from the Central Gondär Administration Archival center and National Archives and Library Agency of Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. The field observations to old infrastructural centers where the researcher personally visited still standing and ruining structures were of great relevance to crosscheck the information that was collected from libraries, archival centers, and from informants. The data collected from different centers was selected, organized, analyzed, and crosschecked to maintain authenticity before it was presented in its current form. The major findings of the study are; a) Däbrä Tabor Awrajja was one of the places in northwest Ethiopia where social institutions like schools, medical care centers, and airfields were established beginning from the post-liberation Imperial period; b) The Seventh-day Adventist Church played a pioneering role in the establishment and provision of modern education and medical care facilities in the study area; c) Though the Imperial regime made some infrastructural development activities, it was during the Därg period that the extent of infrastructural development activity showed significant improvements; d) In spite of the fact that the Italians conquered Ethiopia to reduce the country as their colonial territory, they made important contributions in the area of infrastructural developments in the study area; e) the people of the study area contributed labor and money during the establishment of infrastructures and; f) political instability, lack of proper attention from the regimes, and the rainy season posed serious challenges to the several attempts made in infrastructural development in the study area	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	History and Heritage Management	en_US
dc.title	A History of Infrastructural Developments in Dӓbrӓ Tabor Awrajja: 1941-1991	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US