Silt'e (people)

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The Silt'e ( ስልጤ ) are an ethnic group in southern Ethiopia . An earlier name is East Gurage . This is derived from the relationship between the Silt'e language and the Gurage language . In the 2007 census, 940,766 people identified themselves as Silt'e, making up 1.27% of the Ethiopian population.

Until the 1990s, the Silt'e were not recognized as an independent ethnic group, but subsumed under the collective term Gurage . Only the new federal order made it possible for the state to recognize their ethnic identity and in 1991 the establishment of a Silt'e zone within the Ethiopian Region of Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples (SPNNR).

The Silt'e people are made up of various sub-groups, the most important of which are the Azärnät-Bärnät, the Alichcho-Wuriro, the Silt'i and the Wulbaräg (also known as Ulbarag Daloch Sanktuar). The vast majority are the Silt'e Sunni Muslims. They were also called Hadiyya because they can be traced back to the historical Muslim state of Hadiyya .

The population of the Silt'e zone lives mainly from agriculture. The cultivation of the food plant Ensete ( Ensete ventricosum ) is of particular economic importance for small farmers. Many silt'e live seasonally or permanently in the cities of southern Ethiopia and especially Addis Ababa and Adama , where they are mainly active as small traders.

literature

  • Ulrich Braukämper : History of the Hadiya of South Ethiopia. From the beginnings to the 1974 revolution. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1980, ISBN 3-515-02842-0 ( Studies on Cultural Studies 50).
  • Dirk Bustorf: Ennäqor ethnography. In: Siegbert Uhlig (Ed.): Encyclopaedia Aethiopica . Volume 2: D - Ha. Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-447-05238-4 , pp. 309-310.
  • Dirk Bustorf: Aseza'ra Ya'eqob's children. Traces of the pre-population of Selte-Land. In: Aethiopica. 9. 2006, ISSN  1430-1938 , pp. 23-48.
  • Dirk Bustorf 2010: "Sǝlṭi ethnography" . In: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) In co-operation with Alessandro Bausi: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica . vol. 4: OX. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Pp. 607-608.
  • Dirk Bustorf 2010: "Wǝlbaräg". In: Siegbert Uhlig (ed.) In co-operation with Alessandro Bausi: Encyclopaedia Aethiopica . vol. 4: OX. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. Pp. 1178-1179.
  • Dirk Bustorf 2011: Living Tradition. History and memory of the Muslim Silt'e of Ethiopia. With an English Summary Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz (Ethiopian Research 74). ISSN  0170-3196 , ISBN 978-3-447-06543-6
  • Nishi Makoto: Making and Unmaking of the National-State and Ethnicity in Modern Ethiopia. A Study on the History of the Silte People. In: African Study Monographs. Supplementary Issue. 29, 2005, ISSN  0286-9667 , pp. 157-168.
  • Rahmeto Hussein: The History of Azernet-Berbere until the Expansion of Shoa During Menelik II. Senior Essay, Department of History, Addis Ababa University 1984.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Central Statistical Agency : Summary and Statistical Report of the 2007 Population and Housing Census Results ( Memento of March 5, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 4.5 MB), p. 85