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Jimma Abba Jifar

An Oromo Monarchy - Ethiopia 1830-1932

ISBN-13: 9781569020890

Author(s): Herbert Lewis

Subjects: JBHC, JBSL, JFSL3

Publisher: Africa World Press

Publisher Imprint: The Red Sea Press

Publication Date: 10-09-2000

Format: Paperback / softback

Availability: In stock

£19.99

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About the book

The Kingdom of Jimma Abba Jifar, established ca 1830, was the largest and most powerful of five monarchies formed by the Oromo peoples in south-western Ethiopia. Based on extensive fieldwork in the area, this work presents a study of the history and organisation of Jimma under its most powerful ruler, Abba Jifar II (1878-1932), stressing the political history and structure of Jimma with a comparative perspective which notes similarities and differences in processes and structures to monarchical systems elsewhere in Africa and the world.

Jimma Abba Jifar

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