Chebo people

The Chebo or Chabo are an ethnic group of the Southwest Shewa Zone and West Shewa Zone in the Oromia Region of south-west Ethiopia. The Chebo speak the Oromo language but originate from the Gurage ethnic group. Their religion is Ethiopia Orthodox Christianity,[1] the livelihood of the Chebo-Inchini area is described as enset (Ethiopian banana), barley, and cattle.[2]

Name

One possible explanation of the name Chebo is from the Chebe plant, Croton gratissimus (lavender croton),[3] which is normally burned during Meskel damera celebrations.

Another possible explanation is the name of the area where the Chebo people live. Parts of the south west Shewa Zone had been incorporated in Chebo and Gurage districts[4][5] in the Shewa province, as it was called prior to 1995.

Notable Chebo

  • Esteban Mitsou Errandonea

Notes

  1. ^ Trimingham, J. Spencer (2013). Islam in Ethiopia. Taylor & Francis. p. 40. ISBN 978-1-136-97029-0.
  2. ^ "An Atlas of Ethiopian Livelihoods" (PDF). USAID. February 2016. p. 124. The area is marked CIE and is at the centre of the map.
  3. ^ Tadele, et al. 2014
  4. ^ Kloos, et al. 1987
  5. ^ Kloos, et al. 1989

References

  • Kloos, Helmut, A. Etea, A. Degefa, H. Aga, B. Solomon, K. Abera, A. Abegaz, G. Belemo. 1987. Illness and health behaviour in Addis Ababa and rural central Ethiopia. Soc. Sci. Med., 25 (9): 1003-1019.
  • Kloos, Helmut, A. Adugna. 1989. Settler migration during the 1984/85 resettlement programme in Ethiopia. Geo Journal, 19.2: 113-127.
  • Tadele, Desalegn, E. Lulekal, D. Damtie, A. Assefa. 2014. Floristic diversity and regeneration status of woody plants in Zengena Forest, a remnant montane forest patch in northwestern Ethiopia. Journral of Forestry Research, 25 (2): 329-336.


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