NEGOTIATING POWER IN IMPERIAL ETHIOPIA

Alessandro Triulzi; Etana Habte Dinka; Tesema  Ta’a

doi:10.6093/978-88-6719-309-7

NEGOTIATING POWER IN IMPERIAL ETHIOPIA: Wallagga, 1890s-1930s A History In Documents

Authors

Alessandro Triulzi

University of Naples L'Orientale

Etana Habte Dinka

University of Miami

Tesema Ta’a

Addis Ababa University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6719-309-7

Keywords:

Regional History, Imperial Administration, Local Government, Negotiations over appropriation of tribute, tax, land and gold

Synopsis

Editore: UniorPress

Collana: Fuori Collana

Pagine: 446

Lingua: Italiano

NBN:

Abstract: The volume is the English translation of Alessandro Triulzi and Tesema Ta’a (eds), Documents for Wallaga History 1880s–1920s E.C. (Amharic የወለጋ የታሪክ ሰነዶች ከ1880ዎቹ እስከ1920ዎቹ [YäWälläga yätarik sänädoch kä1880wochu eskä 1920wochu]), published jointly by Addis Ababa University Press and Università di Napoli L’Orientale in 2004. The 500-odd letter exchange between the Central Government in Addis Ababa and the ruling family of Naqamtee, the regional capital of Wallagga in western Ethiopia, has been retrieved with the kind cooperation of the Ethnographic Museum of Naqamtee, where the hand-written documents have been preserved since the requisition by the Därg in the 1970s. The letter exchange is accompanied by the Amharic-written chronicles of the ruling families of Naqamtee and Arjo, both recovered from family descendants, while the "Genealogies" of the Macca (Boräna) drafted in Naqamtee presumably in the early 1920s were recovered in the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome.

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Author Biographies

Alessandro Triulzi, University of Naples L'Orientale

Alessandro Triulzi has held the Chair of Sub-Saharan African History at the Università di Napoli L'Orientale, 1995-2011. He has carried extensive research on 19th and 20th c. Ethiopian and African History, specializing on oral sources, regional history, migrants' narratives, and transborder mobility. Recent publications include Remapping Ethiopia. Socialism and After (2002), Colonia e postcolonia come spazi diasporici (2011), Long Journeys. African Migrants on the Road (2013), Bibbia e Corano a Lampedusa (2014). Since 2018 he co-edits the National Diary Archive Series "DiMMi di Storie Migranti" at Pieve Santo Stefano (Tuscany).

Etana Habte Dinka, University of Miami

Etana Habte Dinka is Assistant Professor of African History at the University of Miami. A Ph.D. graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London (2018), Etana H. Dinka is a historian of Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa region focusing on nineteenth and twentieth-century political and environmental history. His research focus includes dynamics of state-making projects, histories of competing nationalisms, political violence, and Oromo-Ethiopian historiographies. His latest publications appeared in the Journal of African History, Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, African Studies Review, Northeast African Studies, and the Journal of Oromo Studies. Etana Dinka is the editor of Shadows of History: Nationalism, Violence and State Crisis in Ethiopia (2025).

Tesema Ta’a , Addis Ababa University

Tesema Ta’a (PhD) is Professor of History at Addis Ababa University. He is the author of Issues in African Historiography (2010), The Political Economy of an African Society in Transformation: The Case of Macca Oromo, Ethiopia (2012), and The Western Oromo and the Ethiopian State To 1941 (2023). He has published several research articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Northeast African Studies, the Journal of Ethiopian Studies, the Ethiopian Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities, Traditional Institutions in Contemporary African Governance, the Journal of Oromo Studies, OSSREA, and book chapters in multiple edited volumes.