SECURITY PROBLEMS IN AGÄW MEDER AWRAJA, 1941-1974

SHIMELIS, Ayalew

dc.contributor.author	SHIMELIS, Ayalew
dc.date.accessioned	2019-11-07T03:16:12Z
dc.date.available	2019-11-07T03:16:12Z
dc.date.issued	2019-11-07
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/9984
dc.description.abstract	This study is a history of security problems in Agäw Meder Awraja from 1941 to 1974. Methodologically, the thesis exhaustively exploited archival, oral and written secondary sources. It examines the impact of the administrative changes, maladministration of the state in relation to taxation and inheritance over land, banditry and robbery, which brought security problems on the life of the people of the awraja. Agäw Meder is said to have been named by the name of the seven Agäw brothers who settled in Agäw Meder. The awraja is one of the sub-provinces in Gojjam where the Awi people live maintaining their cultural and linguistic identity though there was the influence of Ethiopian rulers. It shares extensive borders with Mätäkäl, Qolla Däga Damot and Bahir Dar Awrajas with whom it had peaceful and hostile relations. Agäw Meder was organized as a sub-province immediately after Ethiopia’s liberation from Fascist occupation in 1941. Since then it had passed through various administrative changes and the administrative boundary of the sub-province was re-adjusted two times in 1948 and in 1956, which resulted the detachment of Mätäkäl and Bahir Dar Awraja, respectively. The detachment of Mätäkäl that was aimed at resolving the sporadic Awi-Gumuz conflicts did not accomplish its intended objective and sustained as the main security problem. Taxation changes in the awraja were failed to attend their objective due to the stiff resistance of the people and some of them were ended in bloodshed. Inability of the state to control banditry and thievery added with in proper management of land resource brought unending disturbance in the awraja. Frequent appointment and dismissal of awraja administrators’ caused maladministration. More or less, the government tried to thwart the situation through a combination of forceful and peaceful approaches though not successful. Side by side, the local people widely engaged in the aversion of security problems through religious and traditional associations. Gradually, inefficiency and incompetence of local and higher government officials to combat security problems added with the corrupt nature of the feudal administration alienated the people from the state and led to the downfall of the imperial regime in 1974.	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.subject	OF HISTORY	en_US
dc.title	SECURITY PROBLEMS IN AGÄW MEDER AWRAJA, 1941-1974	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US