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AAPO. See All Ethiopian Unity Party elections of 2005 and, 49 Abate Kisho, 100, 104, 105, 112–13, 119, EPRDF and, 36 137, 149, 155, 167, 175 imperial history of, 4, 21, 26–30, Abaya, Lake 72–74, 78, 86, 88–89, 97, 190, border conflict, 7–9, 24, 147, 162–77, 191 180, 187 intermarriage and, 42 resettlement programme, 169–70, 172, Italian invasion and, 56, 75, 90 174–75 Protestantism and, 77–78 Abaya State Farm, 164–68, 172, 174 Sidama myth of origin and, 59 Abo (ancestor and site, Sidama), 64, 93, Wolayta clans and, 72–73 132, 138 WSHA vs., 114 Abyssinian kingdoms, 26, 56, 87 Amhara National Democratic accountability upwards, 43, 47, 104 Movement (ANDM, formerly Addis Ababa, 8, 21, 29, 46, 49, 115 Ethiopian People’s Democratic administrative integration policy, 23, 99, Movement), 33, 46 102, 178, 181 Amharic language, 4, 18, 26, 47, 75, 89, administrative positions, 82, 84, 124, 190, 191 135–36, 141 Amharisation, 26, 73, 78, 89–91 administrative units. See also specific Amnesty International, 150 units and types ANDM. See Amhara National Derg and, 32–33 Democratic Movement EPRDF and demand for, 3, 97–99, anga (ritual purity, Sidama), 63, 64. See 101–2, 105–8 also purity and impurity ethnic delineation of, 15, 41 Ankober area, 59 types, defined, 17 Apter, David E., 2 Wolayta historical (dana), 61, 66 Arbaminch area, 116 AEUP. See All Ethiopian Unity Party Arbegona area, 83 Africanists, 2, 189 armed settlers. See landlord system; agrarian involution, 81 neftegna Ahmed Gragn, 59 Aroresa area, 83, 112 Albania, 34 Arsi Oromo people, 56, 141 Aletta clans (Sidama), 63, 64, 72, 78, artisans, 17, 23 137–38, 149 Derg and, 81–82 Aletta Wondo woreda, 113 marginalisation of, 66–71, 67, 86, 87, All-Ethiopia Socialist Movement. See 127, 128, 138–39, 183, 186 MEISON Protestantism and, 77–78 All Ethiopia Unity Party (AEUP, Sidama (see awacho, hadicho, formerly All Amhara People’s tunticha) Organisation, AAPO), 50 Wolayta (see chinasha, degela, Amado, King of Wolayta (Tigre dynasty, hillancha, wogache) 1800–35), 61, 62 Assab administrative unit, 32 Amhara, 8 assimilation, 28, 190. See also Abaya State Farm and, 166 Amharisation Awassa and, 148 Austin, Dennis, 2 class vs. ethnicity and, 30, 38 authoritarianism, 4, 48–49, 193, 194 Derg and, 77, 82–83, 97 autonomy solutions, 35–36 204 index awacho (smiths, tanners, Sidama), 68, Christianity, 26, 58, 75. See also 70, 114, 133, 135, 138 Orthodox Christianity; Protestantism Awassa, 7, 56, 76, 79, 187 civil society, donations to, 194 protests of 2002, 149–51 clan idir (dabo idir, Wolayta), 79, 122, protests of 2006, 154 130–31, 162, 186, see also idir Sidama struggle for control of, 23, clans, 4. See also Sidama clans; Wolayta 147–51, 154, 177 clans Axum dynasty, 26, 29, 58 characteristics of, compared, 10, 11, ayana (spirits, Wolayta), 62 63 ayle (slave descendants, Wolayta), 23, competition between, 12, 91–93, 127, 65–69, 67, 71, 74, 78, 82, 86, 87, 92, 137–40, 148–49, 155, 179, 182–84 127, 133–36, 139, 140, 185, 186 Derg and, 64, 77, 80–82, 93, 97, 135, EPRDF encadrement of, 98, 118–20, 140 123–26 EPRDF and, 23, 97–98, 112–15, 119, idir and, 131 121–26, 134–40, 159–62, 177 marriage and, 128 ethnic politics and intensification of, Wogagoda and, 159–61 144–45, 148–49, 155, 157, 159–62, 165, 177, 182–86 Bahru Zewde, 27 hierarchies and, 60–72, 128–29, Bakalu, Fitawrari, 71 131–34 balabat (local administrators), 72–75, historical trajectories of, compared, 82, 86, 88, 89, 93, 115 86 Balcha, Dejazmach, 74 imperial rule and, 72–73 Bali state/sultanate, 58 inter-ethnic links and, 91 Balisky, P., 21 landlord system and farming and, Bankano clan (Sidama), 165 78–80 Bedru Adem, 53 marginalised groups and, 66–72, 67, Benza area, 83 92–93, 127–44 Betena Hotesa, 137 marriage and, 128–29, 142–44 Beyene Petros, 111, 115, 121 northern invasion and, 88 Bilate resettlement camp, 169 origin and development of, 59–70, 63, Bilate River, 164–66, 172 91–92 Birtukan Mediksa, 49–50, 194 Protestantism and, 77–78 Bitew Belay, 104–5, 113–14, 125, 137, Wogagoda conflict and, 160–62 140 women and revival of, 141–44 Boditi town, 123 Clapham, C., viii, 26–28, 190 Boloso Sore woreda, 122 class tensions, 13, 14, 27–30, 32, 38 Borrodda, 58 clientelism, 3, 19 Brøgger, Jan, 61, 70, 137 Coalition for Unity and Democracy Brubaker, R., 163, 176 (CUD), 49–54, 120–23, 193, 194 Bushe (mythical ancestor, Sidama), Coalition of Alternative Forces, 111 63–64, 63, 70, 92 coffee, 10, 74, 78, 81, 87, 92 Butajira meeting of 2005, 171 colonisation, 13, 25, 29, 55, 85, 87, 180, 186, 190, 191 Canada, 35, 46, 192–93 constitutional court, 45 Carswell, G., 165 constitutional structures, 5, 189. See also case-specific reforms, 41 Ethiopian Constitution of 1995 Chabal, Patrick, 14, 16 constructivist approach, 3, 11–16, 41–42, checks and balances, 43, 44, 46 55, 85, 90, 92, 107–8, 127, 147, 179, Chiatti, R., 21, 65, 74, 122, 130, 138–39, 180, 182, 183 164 contextually sensitive approach, vii, viii, chinasha (potters, Wolayta), 67, 68–69, 5–7, 11, 16–17, 19, 24, 91, 116–17, 86, 125, 128 147, 181, 189–91, 193